Category: 3. Muse Better

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    A line pulses, pulsesorderly and rhythmicallysays this, this, this, this

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    Jacob turned his back.Bang bang bang. Bang. Bang bang. Bang. A part of me died.

  • Mornings 🌄

    These days, these pandemic / lock down heavy days, I have two types of mornings. Type 1: 430-5: Wake up 5-540: meditate 540-740: Breakfast, laundry, read, write Type 2: 430-5: Wake up 5-7: Exercise 7-720: Meditate 720-740: Breakfast, laundry, read. Why do I struggle with it? How am I struggling with it? First, I dread…

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    Take a step abackReveal the breadth of the seaThe bare of the sky 退一步,海闊天空。

  • 陪著你走 完之後 🍂

    The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,into the western sea, and the moon rising behind youas you stood where ground turned to ocean: no wayto your future now but the way your shadow could take,walking before you across water, going where shadows go,no way to make sense of a world…

  • Investigating the “woo-woo” in Chinese and English

    I love having a blog that I don’t know if anyone reads, because I can just write freely, but still be slightly restrained by an imaginary audience. The North Stars of this Post 1. All writing Gods instruct us to keep writing. 2. All philosophers seem to have said the same shit differently, over and…

  • Breathing Out

    Hello Derek,Today in Hong Kong, we went into another round of lock down because of the 3rd wave of the coronavirus. No dine-in anywhere, and I could not work in the coffee shop I normally went to. So I decided to listen to the “Hell Yeah or No” book and walked around the city. About…

  • Then Go Wash Your Bowl 🥣

    A monk asked Zhaozhou (趙州從諗) to teach him.Zhaozhou asked, “Have you eaten your meal?”The monk replied, “Yes, I have.”“Then go wash your bowl”, said Zhaozhou.At that moment, the monk was enlightened. From the book The Gateless Gate 無門關 趙州洗鉢 僧問:『學人迷昧,乞師指示。』師云:『喫粥也未?』僧云:『喫粥也。』師云:『洗鉢去。』其僧忽然省悟。 I don’t really get koans 公案. I just couldn’t get anywhere trying to think about random sentences.…

  • Back-tracking the 🏞 of Ideas

    I am now at ohwowohwowohwow.me. Before that, I was thinking if I should put my tokenised newsletter under wootwoot, or enlivenworks, or something else. Before that, I was inspired by [tryroll.com] and decided to tokenise🤑 my newsletter. Before that, I was inspired my [Mckinley Valentine] and [Balaji Srinivasan]’s [post], and decided I should start a…

  • What Joseph Goldstein Did To Me This Morning

    What Joseph Goldstein Did To Me This Morning

    When you become aware that your shoelaces have become untied, which they will, simply re-tie them and begin again. When you become aware that your boyfriend is cheating on you, which he will, simply dump him and begin again. When you become aware that your boss is slacking off, which she will, simply return to…