Famous Zen teachers would just whack you with a stick or cut off a finger. bam! Instant enlightenment.

I believe it’s honest to give proper credit for the idea.

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn’t enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other’s shadow (Jung), and not our own.

Like Schrödinger and his cat?

I know and believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No we don’t. Some unforeseen cosmic cataclysm could happen as I type this and obliterate our yellow star. I don’t believe it will, and have faith it won’t.

Like we believe in colors but there aren’t. It’s just the way light bends, reflects.

I went through that for the same reasons. If it was under our caregivers, they went through their traumas that caused that.

A scythe can be used for harvest, cutting a path, or murder. Tools are neutral, intent not so much. And purity doesn’t matter here. I can have purely loving intention and rob someone of their own. Or purely base intention and something beneficial occur by happenstance.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

Maybe the belief is that it does matter. Gotta grind beyond what’s normal or healthy for too-long-extended periods. Or be homeless.

We can’t see wind either.

There’s something to be said for practicing detachment, too. Or rather the impermanence of things.

We’re seeing less of them here. I think as climate catastrophe increases, they may come back.

It doesn’t. But the bank fees, merchant fees make it cost prohibitive to overdraft, not to mention criminal charges, jail, and fines if you don’t correct the issue immediately.

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I’m not sure how the technology works there, but here, very few businesses even have the old manual card machine that uses carbon copies. I’ve learned to keep a small amount of cash. Plus it’s hot and sticky here, so the squatter that hangs out at the corner shop a few miles away – seldom asks for anything, but if I ask them, they will request a cold soda and occasionally a hot dog

There are still power and internet outages possible, climate disasters aren’t going to only hit those who deserve it.

I don’t have access to those. I’m in the Evil Empire.

"want to hide” != Privacy. Maybe I want to donate anonymously. Maybe I want to leave $5 in a community pantry or pay a backyard mechanic. Maybe I want to pay a neighbor for picking up milk for me. Maybe in a world of always on surveillance, it’s a small act of resistance.

chocolate -raspberry ice cream and brandy is an extremely sensual kiss.