fake hans gruber

 

layer cake : the art of good business is being a good middleman

chatgpt made this

 originality is overrated

remember, all great novels are but remixes of the humble dictionary

 why zen ?

long history of sniffing zen books

alan watts' spontaneity, controlled accident, etc 

only one where a real teacher guided me (thanks Myoyu Roshi!)

(this also decides technique - count to zen )

pirsig's zen ties to enthusiasm and arete. this makes real life pursuits real

zen is beyond good/evil labels or classifications

what next ?

an altar and a spot/corner is needed, otherwise there is no 'switch' occurring _to_ sitting

vow to practice daily

dust off the manuals, sit for 5 min more

see you on the other side

 writing prompt

an adult steps into the percy jackson universe by mistake, sees a trireme dock at the cochin port

 ranprieur's this page is gold

https://www.ranprieur.com/archives/012.html

https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-ecology-of-work/

this essay seems to put in words exactly what I'm thinking - probably because i spent a lot of time reading such pieces, but

excerpt Capitalism as a system of ever-accelerating production and consumption is, as we environmentalists continually insist, not sustainable.

That is, it is a system intent on its own death.

Yet the capitalist will stoically look destruction in the face before he will stop what he’s doing, especially if he believes that it is somebody else whose destruction is in question.

Unlike most of the people living under him, the capitalist is a great risk-taker largely because he believes that his wealth insulates him from the consequences of risks gone bad.

Ever the optimistic gambler with other people’s money, the capitalist is willing to wager that, while there may be costs to pay, he won’t have to pay them.

Animals, plants, impoverished people near and far may have to pay, but he bets that he won’t. If called upon to defend his actions, he will of course argue that he has a constitutionally protected right to property and the pursuit of his own happiness. This is his “freedom.” At that point, we have the unfortunate habit of shutting up when we ought to reply, “Yes, but yours is a freedom without conscience.”

and the kicker

Environmentalists are, on the whole, educated and successful people, many of whom have prospered within corporate capitalism. They’re not against it. They simply seek to establish a balance between the needs of the economy (as they blandly put it) and the needs of the natural world. For both capitalism and environmentalism, there is a hard division between land set aside for nature and land devoted to production

.......

Ideally, the map of natural preservation and the map of economic activity would be one map.

 I was walking past N block when I saw a van with open doors, and a crowd of people around them, with some young folks helping and ushering older people ... I checked the side of the van and it said 'St Jude's' ... it was an ambulance, but in black, and I hoped it was not Thomas Uncle... but it was 

Sensible advice but ....

 Make sure to keep the upi pin starting with a small number so that if you find yourself entering it twice on autopilot,there's a good chance you put the pin in instead of the amount