rob hardy

“A conversation has a spirit of its own,” Gadamer writes, “and the language in which it is conducted bears its own truth within it.” This insight directly challenges information-transfer models of communication. Language isn’t just a vehicle for pre-formed thoughts; it’s the medium through which thinking itself happens. Or as Soleio writes,... See more

It is not about figuring it out, it is about relaxing the mind so that the truth may emerge from the soul.

Knowing cannot be forced, it already is - just waiting for the space to make itself known . Awareness arises when there is room for it.

We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and then practice will begin to be what we are doing all of the time, whether we are doing it formally or going through our daily lives.

If practice is a chore, or it is boring, or if you’d rather be doing... See more

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more

Modern feminism is an oxymoron, because it treats the feminine as implicitly inferior, and with tacit disdain. It exalts the masculine ethos as the ideal, and marginalizes feminine preferences as things to be fixed , not embraced . All because it fractures the holy scripture delusion of increasing the labor supply “equality”.