#kensho

MY Kensho,

Azure Design, that developed the exteriors together with Archineers Berlin,

Naval architecture by The Italian Sea Group,

Interior Design by Jouin-Manku,

Kensho 💎

Guess who finally read the Power of the Dark Crystal 😌 I have mixed feelings about the story, but I loved Kensho's character and needed to draw something simple to get reacquainted with coloring again, so here is the precious acolyte! I made his scarred eye slightly asymmetrical on purpose. Thought it would make sense since that whole area is burned.

Old Kensho art! Prob a year + ago! I love him, he's baby, one of my absolute favourite Gelfling!

Reading of the Day 10/15/24

Page of Shards-Kensho

Before stream-entry, spirituality is only a collection of perspectives and unique experiences. After stream-entry, a fundamental crack has been opened in the fabric of your dream. You are never again the same.

And similar to getting laid, everything is a lot more intuitive after stream-entry. You can appreciate, for example, two seemingly contradictory spiritual teachings while receiving the truth conveyed by both. Having tasted the truth that is not words, words no longer get in the way of truth.

So, what actually is stream-entry?

Contemplate the following metaphor:

You've been binge playing a video game as a character for an unknowable amount of time. It's been so long in fact that you feel that you are the character. Their fears, desires, sense of self, plans for the future, and so on, are all yours. That character's world is your world.

Then, suddenly, your mom throws open the door to your bedroom and starts shouting about laundry and Fox news. You are jolted from the game and pause it. You do your chores and then go back to playing. Now when you think of "I" or "me," you don't feel like you are the character. This isn't to say the character feels separate from you or disappears. But now you can play the character more clearly, enjoy the character more vividly, without the anxious veil of identity confusion.

Stream-entry shatters the felt belief in a false self.

All of us live with a thing inside of us and we serve it like a slave. Do you want to learn to serve it better or to break free from servitude forever?

We seek that which gives this thing pleasure and we try to avoid that which gives it displeasure. It requires constant re-enforcement with contrived confidence and fragile security.

The things that make it happy are temporary and limited. The things that cause it suffering are endless.

And the whole time what do we call this thing? Me.