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Proprietor of Everything is ablaze! Editor of Tales From The Playa at Burning Man. Former staff writer at ReadWrite.
“Its leaves are fragrant.”
“What’s that?”
“Its leaves are fragrant!”
“Oh, yeah. They are, sort of. But I’m afraid it’s sort of… had its life span. Its flowers are all dried up.”
First neighbor laughs a little nervously.
“It’s used to warmer climates.”
Had he ever done this before? he wondered. With pen to paper and the actual process occurring, it was as though he had never done anything else. But pause, even moments, and it was as if not only had he never done it, but there was no way to be sure that he ever would again.
The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.
But…
I LOL’d with force.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
I made this. :)
Stories about the future we’re making and what it’s doing to us. A cosmos journalism experiment by Jon Mitchell.
I did another story-for-octopus trade. I put this one on my big website because it was a trade with Sloane, so I felt like I had to take it super-seriously like a real ártístêê.
“Hi Robert? This is Google. Can we chat for a sec? It’s just that we spent a lot of time and effort positioning Glass so it’s friendly, approachable, and, well, OK for normal people… You’re kind ruining all of that.”
Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew. Ew. Ew ew.
I had a teeny little Buddha on my desk, but it wasn’t working. I wasn’t noticing it. So I just got my biggest Buddha from atop the bookshelf in the living room to put here instead. Now I’ll be reminded constantly.
But it’s so strange for me to be so drawn to a religious symbol, particularly one depicting a human. I had my Jewish phases, but even then, those symbols never mattered to me as much as the Buddha. It has always mattered, even before I admitted I was a Buddhist with a capital B. Why does it make me so uncomfortable intellectually to have an idol on my desk when it feels so proper emotionally?
I guess I relate to it as a form of technology, just like the computers next to it. As Horace Dediu would say, I have a job to be done, and I’ve hired the Buddha to do it. It’s the job of reminding me to be mindful of what I’m doing. If an object installed for that purpose doesn’t meet the definition of technology, I don’t know what does.
That doesn’t seem like a particularly religious motivation, though.
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