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Nothing is Enough // Or everything is not enough. // I have a hunger... //// The hunger is me. // If I feed it, it wants more. // Mostly, it wants something else. //// A wise person, said STOP. //

Monday, July 14, 2025

inside and outside

There is a phrase in English: What goes up must come down.

But the Buddha never came down. He stayed up.

With the 8 worldly winds, he was not immune, though.  There would still be gains in the world. And there would still be losses in the world. And these gains and losses might affect him. Like weather. Or bug bites.

But these are outside.

As I understand it, the 8 worldly winds affect all beings in the world, i.e. it affects their bodies, their shell, their outsides. But the Buddha trained enough so the gains and losses stayed outside. They did not need to infect and hijack the mind.

For everyday people, those gains and losses do hijack the mind. Envelope it. Create frenzies. So the outside infects the inside.

Insight and release and Nibbana happen by finding a small part of us, maybe just 1 cm in size, that is not hijacked. And we look and notice it.

And eventually, we can nourish it so it grows. So our insides, our mind, is hijacked less and less. Until it is hijacked no more.

And this is a freedom, a total freedom, for our insides. Our outsides might be wallowing in shit, a situation that previously would have infected and disturbed our insides via the mind. But now, the whole world could be on fire and, inside, there is still peace, calm, freedom, knowing.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

enough

Meeting a person who has enough
Who has more than enough
Who could have half as much and still have enough

That is rare.

Many say they have enough.
But look.
The grass is greener, over there.
This person got more than me.
This person didn't even have to work for it, it was handed to them 

That is all too common.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

mountains of gold

It is a terrible thing for someone to have a mountain of gold but still be unhappy.


It is even worse when they think they will be happy once they get the second mountain of gold.

Sunday, February 2, 2025

shorty: all these lies

It is kinda stupid with all these lies

But I'm used to it.

-The Wedding Banquet (1990s version), movie, approx 11th minute.

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