Kevinpelrine

“you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.”
― John Daido Loori, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training

“But then, almost as a serious laugh, a strength entered her voice and she stood like a tree with a spirit in it, and she opened a portal where her mouth was and spoke better than she ever had before, and as she rushed like blood back and forth in the real artery she saw that ancestors weren’t just behind, they were the ones who were to come.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“If it is true that “when the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way,” it is often also true that when the right man uses the wrong means, the wrong means work in the right way.”
― Alan W. Watts, This Is It and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“By deliberately cultivating a solidaristic approach to design, we need to consider that the technology that might be working just fine for some of us (now) could harm or exclude others and that, even when the stakes seem trivial, a visionary ethos requires looking down the road to where things might be headed. We’re next.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code