Their Holinesses, The Eternal Fishnu and The Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet enjoying what is a sign of the coming of Bodhi Day - at least where I live. Bodhi Day is less than two weeks away (December 8, 2021). I'm sure many readers who found this blog this close to Bodhi Day are new … Continue reading Kuzushi – A Pre-Bodhi Season 2021 Message
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Is This All There Is?
A sunflower is a sunflower and it isn't just a sunflower. My Periodic Wakey Wakey On a recent morning walk, deep in thought, after taking a left turn I faced the morning sun peeking out over a thunder cloud. Silvery and bold like I imagine the "light" that people with near-death experiences describe. The sight … Continue reading Is This All There Is?
Sapience and Creativity
You can't take a bad picture at Bryce Canyon. Every grain of sand in this snapshot is the result of an unimaginable number of state changes over an unimaginably long period of time. The hiker towards the right provides scale. My Uncle Willy's TLDR: No boddah wid dat! As breathtaking as the scene in the … Continue reading Sapience and Creativity
Bodhi Day 2020 – Iesu Me Ke Kanaka Wai Wai
Mrs. Hanamoku's Bodhi Day 2020 rice pudding. Happy Bodhi Day 2020!!! Today is Tuesday, December 8, 2020. It's Bodhi Day! Did you make Mrs. Hanamoku's Bodhi Day rice pudding? This Bodhi Season is about the Heart Sutra - the Heart of Buddhism. It's the subject of all of the recent posts on this site from … Continue reading Bodhi Day 2020 – Iesu Me Ke Kanaka Wai Wai
Day 4 – Bodhi Season 2020 – Buoyancy
The Rubber Ducky Buddha of Joliet says: "Be light of mind. Cut what you no longer need to believe and your mind will float." Bodhi Day 2020 is on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Today December 4, 2020, Day 4 of the Bodhi Season. One of the "Top Five" defining moments of my life happened 50 … Continue reading Day 4 – Bodhi Season 2020 – Buoyancy
Bodhi Season 2020 Begins – Imperfect Information
Most information is imperfect to some degree. This is a slide depicting the broadcast of events from various entities of an enterprise ecosystem. The main point is that the quality of all those events is questionable to some degree. It's important to note that this image is just a naively idealized estimate of the quality … Continue reading Bodhi Season 2020 Begins – Imperfect Information
Bodhi Season 2020 is a Week Away
The other day Mrs. Hanamoku found this heart-shaped potato in a bag of potatoes. It's a Bodhi Day gift symbolic of the Heart Sutra. Bodhi Season 2020 starts in a little over a week, on December 1, 2020. It's seven days of meditation culminating on Bodhi Day, December 8, 2020. Bodhi Season is a total … Continue reading Bodhi Season 2020 is a Week Away
Life Out of Complexity – Bodhi Day 2020
Cellular Automata at 538 iterations of 1500. This automata starts from almost pure randomness and evolves into a crystalline pattern based on a simple rule. The nature of the automata's rule clearly emerged. Embrace Change The core of Buddhism is to accept that change is relentlessly constant, therefore we will be free from suffering if … Continue reading Life Out of Complexity – Bodhi Day 2020
Resilience – Bodhi Day 2020
Life on Earth is the quintessence of resilience. Resilience If you're reading this here in November 2020, you're seeking the freedom from suffering that Siddhartha Gautama found on Bodhi Day about 2500 years ago. This Enlightenment isn't really that hard to find, especially around the Holiday Season we're just entering. Most have experienced this, at … Continue reading Resilience – Bodhi Day 2020
No More Obstacles – Part 3 of the Bodhi Day 2020 Story
Is the past more illuminated than the future? We're pained from memories of the past. And those very same memories computes frightening unknown futures. We can intellectually know that the past doesn't exist anymore, at least for our physical bodies. We can intellectually know that the Universe is so complex, we can't possibly predict the … Continue reading No More Obstacles – Part 3 of the Bodhi Day 2020 Story
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