Happy Bodhi Day Eve!!! I thought I'd offer something to meditate upon for Bodhi Day tomorrow (Sunday, December 8, 2024). Scaling Beyond Comprehension Everything is easy at a small scale. I usually say that a few times during workshops on business intelligence and/or big data. You can solve problems with precision, maintain clarity of purpose, … Continue reading Rev. Dukkha Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2024 Guidance
I wrote a book this year. It's a fairly big book on artificial intelligence. All along, and even after it was published, people told me no one will read such a big book. I agree with them. I usually choose watching a 15 minute video over an hour video on the same subject. Better yet, … Continue reading Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update
Don't worry. As you can see, the trail does continue on. When I met the Eternal Fishnu in 2017, he explained to me that he is the ith manifestation of Vishnu, the "Buddha of the Devonian", overseeing the transformation of fish to land vertebrates that eventually lead to us. I asked why he is here. … Continue reading End of the Maintained Trail
Happy Lunar Bodhi Day!!! We had quite a snow storm a few days ago. Well, well. It's been quite a year. After my Bodhi Day service, I had a "bodhi moment" found in my daily Zen reminders I set up for myself. Almost 20 years ago, I found a site listing some good judo sayings. … Continue reading Happy Lunar Bodhi Day – Jan 18, 2024!
We are problem solvers. We're thinkers. That's the schtick of our species. We don't need to depend solely on eons of evolution to patch the holes in our life strategies. We must train our brains to think as well as train our brains to perform valuable tasks. However, society places a premium on focusing on … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2023 Message
"Four plus three equals three plus four" is what the interviewer kept repeating as her guest spoke of seemingly hocus-pocus ideas about consciousness. She was struggling with his concepts that didn't align with what she's used to. She insisted to herself that there are things we are absolutely certain about - mostly math and science. … Continue reading Certainty
What is more Stoic and timeless than granite? Like many, I grew up thinking the word "stoic" or "stoically" was just an adverb that mostly means standing full on to the battle seemingly fearless with grit and determination. I didn't know that it is a rich school of philosophy, from which, "stoically" is much more … Continue reading Stoicism, Zen, and the Gift of Sentience
An oak seedling I encountered on Tuesday, November 15. It's meditating under it's own Bodhi Tree. My favorite Fall photo for 2022 isn't that of a grove of golden quaking aspen at the alpine altitudes of Utah. Nor is it any cluster of landscaped deciduous trees designed specifically for a Fall spectacle. It's the photo … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Bodhi Day 2022 Message
The Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet and The Eternal Fishnu looking out at a vast chunk of space and time abstracted in about 10 million pixels. This Bodhi Hack is full assimilation of some form of this well-known quote that has reached cliché status: "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know." … Continue reading Bodhi Day Hack
The Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet blends in with the fleeting Autumn moment. If we’re alone in the woods hiking with only nature to capture our attention, our thoughts eventually fade into the background. It's like conversations people are having in the distance are just a blend of sounds. We can't stop that guy in … Continue reading Sentience without Sapience
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