All life is a simply dream-like dance of appearance and disappearance of all phenomena. But unless you know this directly, from your own experience, it can seem like pretty cold comfort - especially when times are hard. As Buddhist wisdom for hard times, my Zen teacher, Kobun Chino Roshi, used to say, ‘Falling apart, falling apart, all together falling apart, it can’t be helped.’ What a relief to know that this isn’t a bad dream, it’s the nature of everything and everyone — coming together and falling apart, like the elements of a dream.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that we cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
…to whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts must I break? What lie must I maintain? In what blood tread?
Do work. Be good:
Do good <—> Welcome good
Good —> Great —> Approach perfection
Work involves emotion. Surmount emotional blocks. Create emotion, then surpass emotion.
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Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling Rocket) by Whistler
Whistler is probably one of my favorite painters
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PUSH THE ART PEDAL THROUGH THE FLOOR
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques, all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture. And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of beige furnished fascism that won’t even raise a ripple. The shamanic response in this situation I think is to PUSH THE ART PEDAL THROUGH THE FLOOR.
- Terrence McKenna
Hopeful eyes, I’m looking to whatever’s in store. New things, rocks and slings to gold and dreams, I’ll stumble sometimes but come back for more.
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I’m in such a weird place right now. Feel’s familiar, feels different…
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
Hype gets in the way. Every ounce of energy invested in vanity metrics and success theater could have gone into building real value instead. Real entrepreneurship - not the caricature from pop culture and mass media - is boring, tedious, and extremely difficult. It’s anything but cool: product prioritization meetings, deciding which customers to listen to and which to ignore, and valiantly trying to keep the vision alive in the face of contradictory facts. To recruit people into that business, the real innovation business, should be our goal. I hope all of us are ready to reach out to those founders and would-be founders and nurture and support them through the hard times. That will create real value.
