November 2019

I’ve spent a lot of time playing computer games, video games, which, when I look back on those many hours, when I was in those hours, it really seemed like the most fun thing. I was absorbed, I was dedicated, I was immersed, I was putting all my energies into achieving some task, and then […]

My idea for today is that we have this kind of internal market where we can make trades. And on the one hand, we have suffering, and on the other hand, we have satisfaction. So we can trade suffering and get some satisfaction. And this would be, for example, exercise, where we are doing things

The self-development game can be a very serious business, talking about stopping wasting time and using our time more usefully, getting serious, getting your life together, stopping wasting time with just idle pursuits. It’s all generally quite serious stuff. And often a lot of the things that are fun are things that, when you get

In the world of biology, the immune system is a system that is there to protect an organism by attacking outside invaders, pathogens, diseases, to protect the organism. But when there’s an autoimmune disease, that is when the immune system overreacts and applies its power too much, so that it actually harms the body that

Well, it’s time for another simple idea, and that is simply that everything is magic. If we really think about it, it really is something that is always there, something that we can always be aware of if we choose to, that we so easily look at things as being mundane and everyday. And I

I’ve been feeling a little bit less motivation over the past few days, a bit of a time of transition as I have to adjust to a new way of thinking. One thing that I realized today is that something about how I was thinking was- it was too much like here’s this goal that

You know, when I started these recordings, I had this fresh new beginning feeling, the feeling that this could be about anything, and I didn’t know what direction it would go. But now, after reaching almost fifty of these recordings, it starts to have its own kind of weight to it, the idea of, oh,

I’ve talked a lot about good habits and bad habits, and trying to do less bad things and more good things. But really, there’s nothing that in itself is automatically a good habit or a bad habit. It’s all about how it serves the larger picture. The actions, the little things that we do every

Well, I just learned a new term today, a new term from French used in English: mise en place. And it means everything in its place, and it’s used by chefs and cooks in kitchens to speak to the idea of having all your tools and ingredients organized and ready to go, so that when

So this past week I’ve had a fairly serious, businesslike kind of attitude, working on just doing work and being happy with doing work, and it’s easy to kind of slip into a too-serious mentality, and really, mindsets, I believe, can be very brittle. If we don’t have enough humour and looseness, then we can