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But, of course, it’s a delusion of the mind. And even if you end up …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

But, of course, it’s a delusion of the mind. And even if you end up being Michael Jackson, the larger-than-life status heaped upon you by admirers is still a delusion. All of this is just a long-winded way of saying: death is real.

But, of course, it’s a delusion of the mind. And even if you end up being Michael Jackson, the larger-than-life status heaped upon you by admirers is still a delusion. All of this is just a long-winded way of saying: death is real.

So the thing is: we’re going to die. Some cancer is going to metastasize in …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

So the thing is: we’re going to die. Some cancer is going to metastasize in our body, or we’ll get a heart attack, or a stroke, or we’ll get smashed by a car, or trip and fall on a staircase, or drown in the bathtub, or choke on the dessert. Or some colorful combination of these.

So the thing is: we’re going to die. Some cancer is going to metastasize in our body, or we’ll get a heart attack, or a stroke, or we’ll get smashed by a car, or trip and fall on a staircase, or drown in the bathtub, or choke on the dessert. Or some colorful combination of these.

Again, it’s okay for us not to be entirely comfortable with that fact.

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

Again, it’s okay for us not to be entirely comfortable with that fact.

Again, it’s okay for us not to be entirely comfortable with that fact.

Not just the death of “me”, but the death of my entire world. It arises, …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

Not just the death of “me”, but the death of my entire world. It arises, it passes away, as Buddhist teachers like to remind us.

Not just the death of “me”, but the death of my entire world. It arises, it passes away, as Buddhist teachers like to remind us.

If we look at the longer stretches of time, with astronomical, geological, or even historical …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

If we look at the longer stretches of time, with astronomical, geological, or even historical scales, death is perfectly normal.

If we look at the longer stretches of time, with astronomical, geological, or even historical scales, death is perfectly normal.

Death and collapse are the rule, not the exception.

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

Death and collapse are the rule, not the exception.

Death and collapse are the rule, not the exception.

99.9% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone extinct (not least through …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

99.9% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone extinct (not least through six periods of mass extinction). Ancient civilizations have survived for 336 years on average, of course with a lot of variance (classical Greece, for instance, lasted 265 years).

99.9% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone extinct (not least through six periods of mass extinction). Ancient civilizations have survived for 336 years on average, of course with a lot of variance (classical Greece, for instance, lasted 265 years).

Facing that inconvenient truth, we’re all tempted to create some kind of immortality project: We …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Nov 22

Facing that inconvenient truth, we’re all tempted to create some kind of immortality project: We all want fame and glory, or something along those lines. It’s just socially impossible to quite admit it to one another. We all think we’re a bit chosen. The Chosen One™.

Facing that inconvenient truth, we’re all tempted to create some kind of immortality project: We all want fame and glory, or something along those lines. It’s just socially impossible to quite admit it to one another. We all think we’re a bit chosen. The Chosen One™.

Even in the pleasure palace the inner beast can go hungry. And indeed, hungry are …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Nov 22

Even in the pleasure palace the inner beast can go hungry. And indeed, hungry are the damned. We need to become good at actually feeding that inner beast, at actually giving it pleasure that does its job: to create inner gratefulness, fulfillment, and joy.

Even in the pleasure palace the inner beast can go hungry. And indeed, hungry are the damned. We need to become good at actually feeding that inner beast, at actually giving it pleasure that does its job: to create inner gratefulness, fulfillment, and joy.

In my upcoming book I'll delve into the very basis of the spiritual experience that …

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 8 Nov 22

In my upcoming book I’ll delve into the very basis of the spiritual experience that undergirds everyday life and its deep oceans of emotions: something I call “cosmoeroticism”

In my upcoming book I’ll delve into the very basis of the spiritual experience that undergirds everyday life and its deep oceans of emotions: something I call “cosmoeroticism”

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