iii. What is it like to be human today?
What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.
What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?
“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail
out to sea and sink.’”
Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .
You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.
Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?
Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
The art of settling
From settling for in life to settling in.
Lögom as example
The bogeyman
The gremlin in the closet. The more I ignored it the more perilous it felt. The more threatening and dark and heavy and dangerous
In turning towards it was like the bogeyman in the closet. The terror was created by me. In looking I saw there was actually something curious and useful and fun to play with.
Most people think they are their thinking. In contemplation, we move beneath thoughts and sensations to the level of pure being and naked awareness.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr