***low 🎙️ volume only till 40 seconds in** Twenty minutes on one word from James Joyce's Ulysses. Why we should read and Listen to this seminal work. Why it matters. Why we matter. Why it, you, us, should matter.....

How do we carry our burden, why do we see life as a do or don't, live or die... The one great question of philosophy is why do we not live our lives ... Amor fati. Love your fate, trust your experience.

Not much here but sharing why I love translation and reading books in their original language.

Strong language and subject matter that will disturb most. Ritual over truth, belief before proof, but trust must come first.

Apathy in society and politics.

Nietzsche's Eternal Return or amor fati. Psychology for our now. How do we navigate suffering or absurdity? Acceptance, radical empiricism informed by MetaModern aesthetics. Free energy to Friston. Cittamatra. Yogacara. Evaluation. Judgement. Pistis: trust/faith. Sraddha: devotion, confidence, and commitment.

What is the nature of self and reality. Shared in poetic(ha) form. The phenomenology of self in Sanskrit and English. What and who we are is a we and an us. Not a you and me, or an I and it. We, thou and I.

I share insights from a course on the quintessence of Trika Saivism. How it informs, or more appropriately how it shares the same lessons, the very lessons we all are Suffering to practice and find.

I share some weird aspects of Canada, Canadian "bilingualism" , education, and culture. With hopes it might entertain and inform, we ourselves may learn from history.

Hl Menken, Harold Bloom, Fredrick Nietzsche and value, meaning, creation. Learning and living. Truth vs guidance. MetaModernism.