When Zen teacher Issan Dorsey was asked to describe the essence of Zen art, he answered, "Nothing extra.""Nothing extra" is also of course the essence of Zen living itself: perceiving life as it actually is, as opposed to perceiving it through a bunch of believed narrative
Ten million Americans declare unemployment in two weeks and all your government does is give you a $1,200 "advance" on your tax return while bailing out corporations with the largest wealth transfer ever, and some of you are still shrieking about Russia and China. Pathetic
The Trump administration is sending Navy ships to patrol Venezuela, the latest escalation against the government targeted by an aggressive hybrid US regime change intervention."President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in
Imagine if you looked out your window tomorrow morning and saw a mushroom cloud growing on the horizon.What do you imagine your first thoughts would be?Do you imagine you'd think to yourself, "Man I wish I'd spent more time arguing with Tulsi Gabbard supporters on
Snuggle in with us for another Cocoon Session where we give you a really cool and easy trick to hack your anxiety, talk about the way the quarantine is changing the world good and bad, and finally Caitlin has her proof that humans are not
Missing the cute, innocent days of early 2020 when our biggest concern was just that the continent of Australia would burn to ashes and Trump would start a full-scale war with Iran.~Everyone's been primed by years of popular post-apocalyptic movies/shows, as well as a growing
During a "virtual town hall" staged to avoid public gatherings amid COVID-19 fears, former vice president Joe Biden advanced a disgusting, ageist, ableist conspiracy theory about the Democratic Party's presidential frontrunner, Joe Biden.Throughout the appearance, Biden repeatedly spoke in a befuddled, incoherent way, severely confusing
Gaffelighting¹, noun. Meaning: When narrative managers insist that obvious signs of serious mental deterioration are just innocuous "gaffes". E.g. "I know what dementia symptoms look like, stop gaffelighting me."~"God that was so awful.""I know! I never want to think about 2016 again!""Well the good news is the 2020
Heyyy America. Rest of the world here. How's it goin'? How are the kids? Are you still making those Marvel movies? Those are fun.So, I know you don't like us to bother you during an election year, but all the people in all the other
CNN's Hilary Rosen has been rightly taking a hammering for lecturing Sanders surrogate Nina Turner, who is black, on how she is and is not permitted to use Martin Luther King Jr's words (and for subsequently babbling about "angry black women" on Twitter). What has