You don’t have to believe that being unhappy makes you against yourself (unhappy)
Conviction is happiness — so where does wanting it come from?
I often want to feel like shit thinking it will help me eventually to get what I want
We forget meaning by default
I want connection: Curiosity-driven skillful relating which communicates curiosity and results in a particular feeling
Discovering one can be happy with all outcomes enables free (non)action
Book review: Searchless Responsiveness
I can't fix wretchedness, I can only be with it, and that sucks
Bad moods are unnecessary, I shouldn't have them, and wish I didn't --- and that wish might be why I keep having them
Book review: Reflections on Silver River
Venerable voracious curiosity
Challenging vs. threatening?
Other kinds of -anthropy
The ugh of meditating in the winter
"Art is a support for life"
How to re-stuff a Samadhi Cushions zafu
What is the six realms model for?
A non-example of animal realm mindset?
The curse of irony
Animal realm mottos 1