Searching for a story I remember reading, 2/n

The last two days I was looking for a story I remembered reading about a student and a lama talking. Yesterday I looked for it again, skimming over Tracts of the Sun. I also checked Already Free briefly, but there is no index and it's ~300 pages if

Searching for a story I remember reading

Yesterday and today I've been searching for a story I remember reading. It was in some meditation context, maybe a website or a podcast or a book. It was about a student or translator talking to a lama. Somehow they got talking about something like self-compassion. The lama

If you always follow some advice, you'll never experience why (or whether) it's good advice

An odd thought: If you always follow some piece of advice, you'll never know why it's good. You'll never know for sure that it is, either. That is: If you want to know why, you have to experience the bullshit that comes from not

Do 100 things by doing one thing every day

I find that "doing 100 things" works best for me when I intend to do one small thing every day. How do I do 100 things? Assuming I want to know when I've done 100 — I have to either do the things on a regular basis,

The accommodater vs. the accommodated

I notice feeling a dualism of roles: The one who accommodates and the one who is accommodated. This is a little like the 'helper'-'helped' relationship described in E-mailing the Lamas from Afar and a little like "the strongest person in our culture is