Buddha Bike

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  • What’s the point?

    Watch What’s the Point? on YouTube A few minutes before I DNF’d Peaks challenge (strava), a particularly hard bike race, I asked myself an important question: What’s the point? I didn’t have an answer.…

  • The Laws of Human Nature – Book review

    “If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity… you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your…

  • 12 Unpopular opinions

    The following excerpts are from an interview with psychologist James Hillman. I agree with about half of these. There are other cultures that are not historically minded at all. They’re much more concerned with…

  • Eating things

    Life consists in eating other creatures. You don’t think about that very much when you make a nice-looking meal. But what you’re doing is eating something that was recently alive. And when you look…

  • Did not finish (DNF)

    A selection of notes, quotes, ideas and musings from the month of March 2024. Gratitude is a balm for bitterness. We can’t just do what we want… that’s just juvenile. But we probably have many…

  • Everyone’s a winner

    It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry we put our good temper down to ourselves. C.S. Lewis There’s four or five cyclists sitting around…

  • Past and potential lives

    Don’t fear fear. Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over…

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Man would rather have the void as purpose than be void of purpose. Nietzsche It was a cold winter evening in New York, one of those nights when it feels like the sun has…

  • Draining the tide pool

    You’re not who you think you are. But you are condemned to be who you think you are.” Sam Harris Maladaptive schemas are patterns we habitually play out. Early in our lives, these patterns…