Kenneth Folk

Zen Master Pink: If I were walking around all day confused, would you endeavor to educate me? Weeble: Yes. ZMP: Why? W: Because I care about you. ZMP: Well there you are.

Given a particular bit of information, will you always know more than others?

"I was born in a water moon. Some people, especially its inhabitants, called it a planet, but as it was only a little over two hundred kilometres in diameter “moon’ seems the more accurate term. The moon was made entirely of water, by which I mean it was a globe that not only had no land, but no rock either, a sphere with no solid core at all, just liquid water, all the way down to the very centre of the globe. "If it had been much bigger the moon would have had a core of ice, for water, though supposedly incompressible, is not entirely so, and will change under extremes of pressure to become ice. (If you are used to living on a planet where ice floats on the surface of water, this seems odd and even wrong, but nevertheless it is the case.) This moon was not quite of a size for an ice core to form, and therefore one could, if one was sufficiently hardy, and adequately proof against the water pressure, make one’s way down, through the increasing weight of water above, to the very centre of the moon. Where a strange thing happened. "For here, at the very centre of this watery globe, there seemed to be no gravity. There was colossal pressure, certainly, pressing in from every side, but one was in effect weightless (on the outside of a planet, moon or other body, watery or not, one is always being pulled towards its centre; once at its centre one is being pulled equally in all directions), and indeed the pressure around one was, for the same reason, not quite as great as one might have expected it to be, given the mass of water that the moon was made up from. This was, of course, ..." -Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist (this is a practice)

“Your capacity to be offended isn’t something that I or anyone else needs to respect. Your capacity to be offended isn’t something that you should respect. In fact, it is something that you should be on your guard for. Perhaps more than any other property of your mind, this feeling can mislead you.” -Sam Harris

Picture concentric circles, growing ever coarser as you move outward. Feel your way toward what is more subtle, understanding that final wholeness lies at the center.

Disambiguation: Open your mind. Someone will say something you haven’t thought of. Instead of shutting down and fighting about what you already “know,” consider that there may yet be something fresh to learn. You don’t have to agree with every new idea. Still, it’s a gift.

How dismal the day when the only thoughts I can think are those I've already thunk.

There is a point beyond which human teachers will struggle to guide you. Open yourself to the possibility of a noncorporeal mentor.

Kenneth is one of my morphs, and a good lad overall. But I don't imagine that he is me.

Weeble: How long does it take to get over the death of a loved one? Zen Master Pink: You never get over it. You just learn to live in the new world.

I miss you. youtube.com/watch?v=hDqqAp…

"Seemed like a good idea at the time." -Bill Hamilton

Reclaim that projection.

And… served. With cold-cut pork tenderloin, avocado, and wedges of lime. And a fine IPA to wash it down.

Roasting peppers and onions and potatoes in the home rotisserie with olive oil. How lovely.

Weeble: In twenty years, when I'm ready, what guidance will you offer me? Zen Master Pink: Stop doing what you think others want you to do.

“What if,” I asked myself at first, half in jest but with burgeoning self-honest discomfort, “you applied the attention of this exceptional moment to mindfulness of the senses rather than public expression of despair?”

If you get your back up when someone questions your ideology, it's because your ideology has become your identity. Don't do that.

@plaste No doubt you’ve read Melville regarding the whale?

@KennethFolk Some I've read three times. The trouble is I haven't found any other fiction that's nearly as good since.

I’m becoming obsessed with Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander series, and I’ve only just begun the second book.

Weeble: You're no Zen master! Zen Master Pink: What is a Zen master? W: I don't know. ZMP: Correct.