You will always fail. The game will always be over. You will always lose. Bushido teaches that the secret to developing genuine virtue, genuine values and ethics and meaning, is to see yourself as already dead. Then look at the world. When it’s all over anyway, what can upset you? When there is nothing to…

To take depression somewhere useful… A plant grows from its roots. We grow from that lowest of our emotional points, but we can grow. If the forces we choose for ourselves are too harsh, we grow twisted, like a blighted tree. But if we grow from our inner game, we will grow in the true…

Life is flow, and as with all forms of flow you will encounter turbulence. Does it not seem strange that no matter how smart or skilled or self knowing you are, you just can’t avoid having a rough day periodically? Also, have you noticed that you can almost never pin down a single clear cause…

Let’s take the walking dead shall we? Though their brain has stopped giving them a reason to live, so to speak, or even the sense that they can live, even though they can easily understand that other people are alive, and even show social comprehension toward others, empathy of a sort, they understand that they…