Daniel Wentsch

Tantra’s radical reformulation at this time can be summed up in the iconic line from one of the most utilized Buddhist texts, the Heart Sutra:

“Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.”

This is true non-duality, where it’s realized that seeking and celebrating oneness and rejecting duality is its own form of duality.

So instead of rejecting the world and

It is a sign of the supreme wisdom of small children that they have no shame or compunction about bursting into tears. They have a more accurate and less pride-filled sense of their place in the world than a typical adult: They know that they are only extremely small beings in a hostile and unpredictable realm, that they can’t control much of what

If you let go a little, you will find a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will find a lot of peace. If you let go absolutely, you will find absolute peace and tranquility.

Ajahn Chah (via Jude Star)

So we can say that the practice of Vipassana is to really look. To notice that much of our experience is a self-imposed limiting construct, and that seeing things more and more as they are internally untangles us and brings about a fundamental and unconditional sense of wellbeing.

To your question about what people starting out can do, I think there has been a crisis in criticism. I mean that in the most expansive way—not just hardcore criticism, but consideration of art. Think about the first album from some little band down the street from me. Who will write a review of that on the internet? No one. It was always hard to

To give both sighted and non-sighted users an equivalent experience, we can use the well-supported aria-invalid attribute. When the user focuses the input, it will now announce “Invalid” (or similar) in screen readers.

But it has proven very difficult to artificially satisfy even the most basic human pleasures. Who wants a birthday cake made with aspartame? Who would rather have a tanning bed than a sunny day? Who prefers to watch bots play chess? You can view high-res images of the Mona Lisa anytime you want, and yet people will still pay to fly to Paris and

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Sophie Tahran in “Designing with Words” at SmashingConf Freiburg