On the self..
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
~ Dogen ~
Language
Understanding..
First pursue to understand that and those around you. Then pursue to be understood.
~ me ~
On Self
Self is a weird word. Sometimes it has an -ish at the end: selfish. Other times it has an outside reference word on the front: yourself, itself, myself, himself, herself, ourselves, themselves …. self always has something added to it to make it meaningful. By itself it has little meaning.
Google….. and beyond.
My friends all laugh at me when I claim that Google freaks the poop out of me. The knowledge that Google has is immense… I mean really huge. Big. Vast. A lot. I claim that if the folks at Google were to be developing some type of AI, they basically have all the material at [...]
Influences
As I signed out of Hotmail, for a brief second, the MSN main page splashed across the monitor as the browser closed itself. And for that brief moment in time, my eye caught the headline which they had on the front page. The funny thing is, that even though it was such a small slice [...]
Living on cruise control.
People do not think enough these days.
And because we do not think, we do not understand the depth of the words we use. We do not understand their meaning or their function. Easily we throw around words like freedom, love, education, intelligence, life, hate, beauty, independence, religion, beliefs, values, energy, virtue and God. Yet, how [...]