Buddha, the unseen, and a hard life
Three things worth reading
We Live a Hard Life in an Easy World
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“These aren’t trade-offs but revelations about what we lose. Every convenience we gain leaves behind some essence, some strength, some human need that gets numbed out. The more the world does for us, the less we can do for ourselves.
And then, life shows up. And we break.”
This short piece beautifully captures how easy our world has become — and how flat that has made our experiences. The motions don’t prepare us to deal with our own mind, understand ourselves, or navigate life in all its messiness and complexity.
Yet this is the stuff that matters most and requires the most from us.
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What Military Strategists Can Learn From Buddha
By Steven Weber
“When decisions respond to a mental model more than they do to the real-world situations that the mental model represents — imperfectly — the outcome is surprising, and o…
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