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When I was 16, I wrote a poem that included the line, "Everything that is born begins to die." Had I read philosophy? No, it was quantum physics and thermodynamics. Over the years, as an adult, I encountered Zen and philosophy.
Understanding the inexorability of life, the arrow of time, and watching my elders grow old, I realized that death doesn't arrive suddenly one day; rather, it begins the moment we are born, and that death is the same process as life. My father-in-law used to say at the end of the day, "one more day, more or less" (he was quite the philosopher, that old man).
So why run if fate is decided, why fight if we will lose anyway, why calculate losses and gains if, as Schopenhauer said, life is a business that doesn't cover its costs.
Everything we do, the mere fact of being alive, generates entropy, inexorably pushing the arrow of time forward.
And entropy, physicists tell us, leads to the disintegration of all cosmic structures, to the death of the universe. And that includes me, you, the planet, everything.
Today is all I have; this present moment is the only life I have.
#zen #actuallyautistic #philosophy #physics #hereandNow #life
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As a child, time passed slowly and I had to wait a long time for the next year or to finish school.
Now, at 63, I feel that everything has happened very quickly and that I have lived in vain, and when I look ahead I feel that I no longer have time for anything, that the years I have left seem like just a few weeks.
#zen #actuallyautistic #time #life
Today I turn 63. This short video attempts to express how I feel and how something is calling to me from deep within ever since I was a child.
Don't tell me it's just another trip around the sun because we already know very well that the world revolves in a complex spiral of spirals and nothing ever returns to the same place.
For almost 30 years, every year on April 8th I remember and celebrate Kanbutsu-e as is done in Japan and in Zendos almost all over the world. I don't have a sangha to go to right now, but I'll sit and do Zazen with my cats and my dog, who for some strange reason seem to understand what it's all about.
From Zen I learned to see, accept and live life as it is, that the only life I have and that exists is the present moment, that the world I see is an interpretation of my mind and not reality.
In the following years, I will try to focus on the practice and learning of the Dharma and help others on that path. Today I'm starting to definitively give up many activities that used to interest me. I've already deleted several accounts and completely retired from the bug bounty world.
And I will try to share here reflections, wisdom I find along the way, and of course, cats, lots of cats, funny cats and wise cats, cats of all colors. Because cats are great teachers.
#birthday #oldage #zen #zazen #wisdom #cats #zencats #actuallyautistic
RE: https://floss.social/@downey/116337415720027032
Yet another reason to continue using #Firefox, #Librewolf, #Zen, etc.
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/24. Do you have a writerly "third place"?
I prefer my “third place” to be a state of giggles or zen mindfulness on a weekday afternoon.
Location is flexible. ❤️🔥
