These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
Oh shit! Did you put out the campfire?
A lot is happening right now: Covid. Stock market collapse. World War. Political instability. You could be forgiven for concluding that the world is at an end. There are certainly enough websites out there that are saying that.
People have been predicting The End since the beginning. […]
So Saturday, I went for a hike. It’s mud season here in SW Colorado, and I drove up into the foothills of the San Miguels, north of Dolores, south of Telluride. It was sliddery up there, as some kind soul had laid trail with their snowshoes, and I was just soled in shoes. I made […]
An abandoned mine in Utah. Abandon your ‘mine,’ get it?
Have you ever heard of the inside-outside distinction? It’s the idea that the boundary by which we define ourselves, our skins, really creates and defines everyone and everything, else, too. Most of us take this boundary for granted and would never think of giving […]
The Boundary
I’ve been contemplating the Inside-Outside Distinction, and its implications. The Inside-Outside Distinction is actually very simple. It holds that almost all the reality we experience inside and about us is based on the concept of boundary. If the boundary fails, or isn’t real, then there is no me, no you, or anything […]
Are you really on the inside looking out?
I’ve written about the Inside-Outside Distinction. This distinction holds that everything we experience around us is based on a single idea: there is everything inside me, and there is everything outside the boundary of my skin. Everything on the outside is not me. Fundamental to this […]
Does a rainbow have skin?
I’d like to write about what I call the inside/outside distinction. It is the fundamental division that exists in the cosmos. It works like this: there is that which is within me, and there is everything and everyone else. There would be no ‘me’ unless there was a you. […]
I’d like you to consider something: that we are conduits, and not end states.
For the most part, humans and other animals (to the extent that animals are self-conscious) consider themselves as end states. For each individual, its own survival is paramount. Even if we think of others, we often do so secondarily, as means to […]
In my last post, https://justmikejust.com/seriously-youre-…t-that-important/, I asked whether, if this life is similar to the dreams of our sleep, there’s really anything ever to worry about, since dreams have no consequences. I wondered about the reality of karma. The bottom line? If you’re dreaming right now, your actions have no lasting effects. Karma presupposes cause […]
It’s been said that being human is a unique gift, since it allows us to change our karma. Looked at in this way, time is also a gift. Therefore, choice is a gift, too. Without any of these – our humanity, our free will, and the reality of time – we cannot hope to change.
But […]
I’m definitely not an expert in meditation. In fact, I think that there are as many ways to meditate as there are people on the planet. So I really can’t tell anyone how to do it. But maybe I can share why, for me, mediation is important.
In a way, when I meditate, I’m lending my […]