The entertainment industry are some sneaky bastards - yeah, I am looking at you RIAA. So, remember the whole SOPA thing where we came together as one Internet to stop the evils of Hollywood bribing lawmakers to track our online activities and shut down sites like Tumblr, Reddit and YouTube?
I think the only further study of the Dharma one can do is into the world of physics and math. When we talk about the Dharma, we’re talking about the-way-things-work. The tendencies and the ups-and-downs.
Even psychology, the Buddha-mind, depends on physics. This is an important part of gaining that knowledge that Buddha also saw. When you look at astrophysics and see the Earth around the Sun around the darkness at the center of the galaxy, which is another subset of the known universe, it’s hard not to see, in perfect model, that not only is differentiating the you-me or the here-there absurd, but even differentiating the big-small or the galaxy-solar system equally as absurd.
The same way I look at someone else and know that at the end of the day we are really one, I look at models of atoms and know that it’s the Earth and Sun. It’s a supplement to the breaking of the self-other dichotomy. I understand the relationship between the self-other, how the self is a portion of the brain. And I understand that the self is made up of spinning particles, and sits on a spinning particle, which orbits another particle, which exists in a cloud that has a spin. Form & emptiness, right?
“You decide who you are, who you wanna be and you hold onto that, ride it out.”
-Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan in Dexter
… If you think of your body
as smart, your heart as a muscle
that thinks, as all of you thinks, then
suddenly the world is smaller and less
difficult to live in. It is okay to cry, okay
to miss someone who has hurt you,
okay to love or not to love. Your body
is thinking, telling you to just let go.
Listen, your heart is beating—
Step back into the world.
