Joe Cecil

A bottomless crevasse

A quote from Tracts of the Sun: We have bad news for you all. You've just fallen from an incredible height into a bottomless crevasse. However — that's also the great news. It's bottomless, so you're falling into space. Happy landings. –Ngak'

Paranoia

A quote from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism: This is the attitude of paranoia: if you look too closely, you will find something fearful. True if not new? I don't know why I'm reading this. The first half was somewhat helpful. The second half has been just

Distraction

Thought: I want to write. Someone is speaking to me so I can't write, that would be rude. Thought: I want to write. (Repeat for arbitrary things I want to do and other things that arise.) Repeat. (I feel like I may have written this post before...)

Enjoy the roundness of your belly

There's a passage in Roaring Silence, excerpted in the email course, that stuck with me. A questioner says they want to meditate more, it's important to them, and they don't do it. The lamas as teaching couple respond: Ngak'chang Rinpoche: Well, the

Remembering that kindness can be reason enough to speak

Something I've been noticing lately is the chance to give kind feedback. I've been noticing this lately in the context of Ultraspeaking, in the context of that and another Discord server, and in the context of a poetry critique group I am running. I can give

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