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ugali—which
zou mou
fo wo
baijiu
mei po
jyu dim
samaki,
Hebb’s Rule
engram
quantum biology.
“Sik fan.”
taffrail
lambrequins.
Happiness is free.
zendo,
Calm your ocean.
bardo—where
ordnance
concussive
I am the self-consumer of my woes. They rise and vanish in oblivious host. Like shadows in love’s frenzied, stifled throes. I can get through this.
Norbert Wiener,
limbic
mnemonic atavisms.”
bhikkhuni,
syabu
mandalas,
pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
“But that’s the point, isn’t it, to keep learning, to grow, to do more good than harm, to create compassion, to understand that every person you encounter is not there by coincidence? All of us play a role in another person’s life.”
Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what’s inside, to unpack the things you don’t need. Karma is the climate of the past, which shapes how much leeway we have in the future.”
Impermanence embraces the new-born, like a midwife, first, and the mother, afterward.
Diamond Sutra.”
That our existence is fluid and relational.”
Grief is unexpressed love.”
taffrail
hawsers
capstan.
bhikkhuni
phenotypes,
Rita Wong. The only Chinese nurse working at the hospital near
