King of the gods VS an army of Titans!

https://youtu.be/DVS-iKAaYcU The King of the Gods takes on an army of Titans! Does he survive? Can you predict the shocking twist? =O Kulavaka Sutta Saṁyutta Nikāya 11.6 https://suttacentral.net/sn11.6/en/su... Expanded version at the end of the Kulavaka Jātaka: https://suttacentral.net/ja31/en/chal... // Facebook! -- https://www.facebook.com/davidsolomon... Twitter! -- https://twitter.com/d_s_leon PATREON -- https://patreon.com/davidsolomonleon

The Story of Wang Hui-Chih – Taoist Sage!

For those of you who don't know... I have a YouTube channel!!! Here's the latest video!!! https://youtu.be/5GoolMx2l_s And here are the passages I quoted in it: ¶47 While Wang Hui-chih was living in Shan-yin (Chekiang), one night there was a heavy fall of snow. Waking from sleep, he opened the panels of his room, and, …

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OUT OF OFFICE Announcement – December 2020

[200 words] I'm going to be spending December in a Zen Temple in the Gredos mountain range in Extremadura in Spain. By this point, I understand the basic notion I am not actually 'David Leon'. I am really just the Universe, pretending it's this monkey called 'David Leon' for a while. Essentially, it appears... for …

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Aristotle’s Self-Help Book — The Nichomachean Ethics SUMMARIZED

[500 words] It's all about doing your thing (ergon). And doing it well.Flourishing. "Eudaimonia". What your thing is depends on what you are. If you're an animal, it's eating enough food to survive, and growing. If you're a human, it's that, plus talking, thinking (...which, annoyingly, involves listening to other people) and... "creative work" is …

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Why Twitch Plays Pokémon is literally the Best Thing Ever

[This is an old post, originally published on Blastocyst on March 9, 2014.But it's pretty relevant today, when we're all on the internet together feeling pretty down about collective action and existence itself.] [9600 words] Mount Moon is our Mount Sinai, and the Helix Fossil, our One True Lord and Saviour. Oh, and one more …

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