little punny buddha

“The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser. In deep surrender, the ego disappears. And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.”

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

What did you mean on the post about ghosts about “how history moves through you”?

this was supposed to be about chasing one little pleasure to the next, ignoring opportunities to create real change or help others, because the vast fear of even touching your own pain feels too scary, thereby rendering you trapped in a cage of invisible suffering that harms you and those around you, and how hard that can be to see if you've struggled with anhedonia for so long that the memory of it is worse than the experience BUT SOMEBODY BEAT ME TO IT