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The Thirst That Doesn’t Know It’s Thirsty
On Tanha — Craving — and the Spoke of the Wheel I First Saw Turning “With feeling as a condition, there is the arising of craving.” — The Buddha, Paticcasamuppada I Noticed Something It didn’t arrive with fanfare. There was no dramatic crisis, no obvious object of desire. Just a quiet, persistent pull — a…
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Tired of Your Brain’s Endless Spin Cycle? Meet Papañca!
Ever feel like your brain has a mind of its own? Like there’s a tiny, overly enthusiastic narrator in your head, constantly adding commentary, side stories, and dramatic interpretations to everything? You see a bird, and suddenly you’re thinking about migration patterns, that one documentary you watched, your grandma’s pet canary, and whether you should…
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Wind
If it is meant for me,It will fly like a bird towards my tree and land on it quietlyIf it not meant for meI will still feel the wind on my branches
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The Body knew first – Diagram
The Body Knew First How signals travel between body and brain — and how the mind constructs your reality 1. The Body Observes Your heart, gut, lungs, and organs are constantly sending signals up through the vagus nerve to the brain. These signals carry precise, organized information — which organ, which tissue layer, what stimulus.…
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The Body Knew First
I’ve spent most of my life living in my head. Thinking, analyzing, observing, inferring. I’ve read Krishnamurti. I’ve sat in meditation. I’ve mapped out how the mind filters reality — how experience becomes observation becomes memory becomes inference. I’ve written about it, spoken about it, circled it from every cerebral angle I could find. And…
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How Do You See What’s Already in Front of You?
I’ve been sitting with a question that came out of my last meditation, and it won’t leave me alone: How does one observe things fresh — in the moment — without the inference of the same room, the same neighborhood, the same life? How can I increase the gap between raw observation and inference, so…
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The Anatomy of a Filtered Life
If I map out how I move through the world, it looks something like this: Experience → Observation → Memory → Inference Four steps. By the time I reach the last one, I’m no longer anywhere near the truth of what actually happened. Let me walk through it — through my own life — to…
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Act of Love
How can I tell my consciousness that people show love in different ways? The love shown on TV — the hugs, the kisses — isn’t the only form of love. An act of love. Can I make my consciousness become aware that small acts of love are the love a person shows towards you? This…
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The Library We Build From Memory
I have a library in my head. Not a metaphor—an actual library. Endless shelves stacked with volumes I’ve written about my life. Every emotion has its section. Every experience, its book. When something happens to me, I don’t just feel it. I reach for the familiar volume: Oh yes, I know this feeling. It was…
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Lock to break
I thought I’d lost the key,but keys are for thosewho still believe in locks. I could shatter this thing—one strike of will,one refusal to stay trappedin the museum of old love. The question isn’t where the key is.It’s whether I’m readyto pick up the hammer. And I get closer…
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The Power of Vulnerability in Engagement
Engagement means allowing yourself to open up and trust that others will respond to you. Whether they respond kindly or harshly—that’s not in your control. But taking the initiative to open a connection, to reach out and create a bond? That part is completely up to you. The Pattern I Know Too Well I feel…
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