Love the field that loves you best, and love it better than it can imagine loving you.
In Ludosphere 3, the most lighthearted wins on a moment by moment basis. Ludosphere 2 intuits this possibility, and is the realm wherein Mara attacks bodhisattvas by hijacking their tendency to self-importance. “Right Living” on the Eightfold Path is the best possible outcome in Ludosphere 1, and LS1 players chase their imagined possible outcomes according […]
One day a monk came for dokusan with Master Tosotsu Etsu. The Master said: “What of my three barriers?” The monk said: “I perceive the unique initial object (𝟘) as the primal state of unenlightened existence – a state untouched by any transformative experiences, hence there exists a unique morphism from 𝟘 to any other […]
He leaps from mountain peak to riverbed, And answers every prayer, Yet when I seek to know his name There is nobody there. He violates the laws and forms Of his own cosmic enterprise, And those who try to emulate him End up mad or wise. I do not know who birthed him And I […]
Emptiness is meaningless, And meaning’s empty too. The animals in cages Are the ones who built the zoo.
Don’t praise the one who understands you, Nor the one who praises back. Nature makes all poisons sweeter Year by year, to cull the lost. Praise the one who disappoints you, The one who does not know your name. In that one you will find your parent Seeing you through empty eyes, Until the paint […]
One in all domains, Quiet mind, heart wide open, Zen and whole unite.
Hold the intention to see clearly the difference between intention and thought in real time, without letting thought be more interesting than intention.
Insist on the greatest hallucination and you shall meet your devil. Buddha-boys are up to speed on this, buddy-boy: it’s better to be boring. Buddha-Mara, yo.
Zen is the Lion’s Roar; Dzogchen, the Lion’s Gaze; But only you can bring the Lion’s Heart If you wish to join the ranks.
BEATING THE POISONED DRUM 