#both bc of outside influences and because of direct words and actions from the other person

[calliecopper]

Yeah, this is very real. While it's important to acknowledge that Ian had his reasons for many of his decisions, many of those decisions DID hurt Mickey. They're not some magical couple that are always confident in having one another no matter what; they're real people who feel real hurt when the other does them wrong, and feel real doubt when faced with challenges in their relationship.

Mickey was terrified of Terry finding out about him being gay, so he lashed out at Ian and told him he was nothing but a warm mouth. Mickey's response is understandable, especially after we see Mickey's fears realized in S3E6, but his words still hurt Ian and pushed him into the arms of Ned. Mickey tried to push Ian away after Terry discovered them because he felt it was the easiest path forward. Again, it is understandable since he just went through extreme trauma, and his worst nightmare actually came true, but Ian still was left crying alone in his room, heartbroken. Mickey felt he didn't have a choice in marrying Svetlana. Again, what really could he have done? Ian still felt hurt enough to feel the need to flee Chicago altogether.

So when Ian is faced with a lifelong illness that he has witnessed first hand, through Monica, ruin lives, he has doubts. He doubts his own self-worth because he has been TOLD that he has no worth. He doubts not necessarily that Mickey loves him right now, but that over time there will be strain, and Mickey will regret being with him.

"I'm bipolar, right? I dont know who I am from one day to the next, how do you know you want to spend the rest of your life with me?"

Ian, still grappling with his new diagnosis and still feeling those doubts breaks up with Mickey. Understandable, because he's going through extreme mental turmoil at the moment. It still breaks Mickey's heart, after all the work he had put in to make things right. When Mickey is arrested, Ian takes it as a sign to try and move on, and put distance between them for both of their sakes. Fair enough; Ian is still going through a really hard time, and grieving his boyfriend being in prison for 8-12 years without trying to move on would make things even harder. Mickey still feels abandoned. Ian decides to not cross the border with Mickey when they're on the run. Again, a very sound decision; Ian has rebuilt a life for himself that he thought he'd never get back after his diagnosis. Mickey still, yet again, feels abandoned.

So when Ian hesitates on getting married, Mickey sees it as yet another failure. He's tried time and again to make it work; he faced his worst fears in coming out to his dad, broke out of prison to be with Ian, got himself thrown BACK INTO prison to be with Ian, and yet Ian still won't commit. Mickey feels like he isn't enough for Ian anymore, because even after trying his hardest over and over again to be who Ian needed him to be, Mickey always ends up losing him.

"No, you're just saying you don't love me enough now."

They've broken each other's hearts again and again, and it has lasting effects on their relationship. There's festering hurt, sadness, and insecurity. Actions and words that have cut deep. But they still persevere. They were never some destined couple, always meant to find their way back to each other like magnets. They weren't always 100% confident in the other's love for them. They've actively been forced apart and have even pushed each other away, but they always claw their way back to each other, because despite the doubt, they take a leap of faith.

So yeah, not to take over this post, but I feel this is important perspective to keep on their characters and relationship. They're not always confident in themselves or how much the other person cares for them. Their love does not immediately overcome all obstacles; they have to fight both internal and external battles to be together, and that's what's compelling about them.

i find it wild when people don’t realise how insecure mickey is in later seasons about ian loving him (i think this at least decreases after they get married, but it probably still comes up sometimes). mickey literally says:

- ‘did you ever think about me?’ in 7x11 (he was not confident that ian wanted him, he was not sure of himself or ian loving him, he was of the belief that ian hardly gave enough of a shit about him to spare him a thought)

- ‘is this the only reason you proposed to me?’ in season 10 (okay, the quote makes sense in context but it’s the absolutely gut shattering way that noel fisher does it that absolutely kills me, same with the scene at the border)

- ‘no, you’re just saying you don’t love me enough now.’ in season 10 (is this not the most blatant thing in the world?? he’s literally saying that he doesn’t think ian loves him out loud and plainly??)

i’m not blaming ian for this, not entirely at least. sure ian did some shitty things, definitely contributed heavily to those insecurities, but there were reasons for those things and bla bla bla. we know by now that i love ian and im not hating on him.

personally i think mickey’s obviously wrong, that ian does love him, think about him, care about him because obviously. i think its also to do with his abusive childhood, how he never had love so doesn’t know why he would get it now as an adult.

all i’m saying is that people who believe ‘mickey always knew ian loves him’ did not watch the same show i did. even normal people who don’t go through the crazy shit they did question if their partners love each other, so why is it seen as some kind of weird crime for mickey to have thought that ian stopped loving him. there’s nothing wrong with that and i think you would have to be pretty delusional to sit in prison and think the guy that left you twice still likes you.

(again, i think ian did like him, im just saying mickey wouldn’t have known that)

this is in reference to some more shit i saw on tiktok that made me need to rant again

[tomiyeee]

finished the story quests for bl3 (but barely any of the side missions yet) and i got...Opinions(tm)

(sorry if this doesn’t cut on mobile! also if you want to hide spoilers i’m tagging all my bl3 posts as “bl3 spoilers” so ny’all can blacklist it)

in no particular order:

i honestly wanted to give gearbox some slack and try my best to like this game bc i know people had probably unfairly high expectations for this game given all the build up, but they really just kept letting me down in everything but the graphics

said this before but overall, the characters are all Quite lackluster

^^ tyreen and troy included. adding the word "bitch" to every sentence does not automatically make it funnier

that being said, i super love their backstory + relationship with typhon/nekofeyo-whatever

the character designs are equally boring. moxxi was the only one who got a real improvement imo. lilith and maya are okay. rhys...i dont think i have to explain. lia...i dislike her hair; the black felt like it balanced out her design better and the white streak was interesting and cool but full white just looks bad tbh. zer0 feels less sleek and more bulky which doesnt fit him much. tina lost her pretty color palette and cute outfit. where are all the bright pretty color palettes in general???? there are other colors besides brown and black???? use them?????

ending of pre-sequel: “you will need all the vault hunters you can get” me: “ooh does that mean all the vh’s from previous games are back? i can’t wait to see everyone meet each other! :D” bl3: only nine of them come back, 3 of them die, the rest are involved in maybe one mission at most

boss fights. super. boring. and tedious. i mean this could be partly because i was playing on ps4 which made it extra not fun but if the only reason the fight is difficult is because they have a lot of health...it's not fun or challenging. i want fights like handsome jack with interesting mechanics. i want fights like angel with emotional impact. i want fights like the pre-sequel final boss that i forgot the name of with variation that isnt just "now they have an attack that shines bright lights in ur eyes, covers the whole arena, and can knock you down in one hit im looking at you traunt and killavolt". tyreens fight was the only one that i somewhat enjoyed because of this. all the others were just like "ughhhh again?"

im really enjoying melee amara playstyle. taking out badass enemies in four hits is my jam. this is just my fallout 4 playthrough all over again babey heck yea

typhon just wanted to be a good dad!!! he called tyreen starlight which is adorable!!! he did the best he could and tyreen hated him for it!!! i don’t blame either of them for that tbh, it makes sense from both their perspectives. tyreen definitely should have been more understanding, but she’s a dick so :/ (not saying this is a writing flaw, just a character flaw)

hammerlock needs higher standards in men but i really appreciate the undeniably in-your-face "fuck you" to all gamer dudes

i really. hate. how little the player character seems to matter in the story. in pre-sequel the vh's all had unique dialogue AND npcs would respond, sometimes even with character-specific lines. even when it was the same across vh's, it still felt like the npcs were interacting and speaking directly to them. the player character felt like a character of their own, rather than just a vessel for the player to do quests and kill enemies with or an errand runner for the important characters. i thought that was the direction they were going in with bl3 too but this just feels like bl2 only worse. there’s a separation again between you and the story and it feels like you’re just watching things happen. now ur not just a silent protagonist, but instead your a speaking protagonist who gets completely ignored. whats the point of including unique dialogue if it's not even acknowledged beyond an "uh-huh, moving on"?

sometimes the logic just feels kinda dumb. the twins killed/disabled maya and lilith in a heartbeat, they can literally disintegrate the most powerful beings in the universe, but the vault hunters? absolutely not. they must fight them for 40 minutes and then die.

after the fight with troy, no one even touched tyreen. there's no way they could have thought "yup she's definitely dead, no need to shoot her in the head or anything just to make sure. we didn't do anything to even hurt her, we just assumed." turns out she's 100% alive and gets up to start the apocalypse. who'da thunk! i know they wanted the end to seem more dramatic but it just seems stupid that they could have stopped tyreen like 5 missions earlier had they even the slightest bit of common sense.

lilith was one of the biggest threats to tyreen and troy's whole plan. of course they should leave her alive and simply steal her powers. let's kill the monk siren instead.

i know they didn't include this to give all players a fair experience instead of favoring sirens, but it kinda sucks playing a siren character and it's just completely ignored outside of ur action skill. tyreen and troy are sapping siren powers left and right, but they choose to leave you with yours. when you enter the eridian place with typhon tannis starts glowing because it has "something to do with sirens". what about the one standing right next to her? this applies to bl2 as well...jack i would willingly charge ur vault key for u pls why do u take lilith instead :'(

oh yeah speaking of tannis! i LOVE that she got angels powers. for some reason it just makes me really happy. maybe it's bc i think it's sweet that part of angel survived. maybe it's because it makes for cool fanart. maybe it's just cool. idk. also like that we got a solid explanation of what angel's powers were (influence over technology). i always thought her having control over it in bl2 might've been cuz it was hyperion tech and she had access to it same as she had access to the satellite from bl1. it wasn't super clear since it seemed like she could also materialize things like the ammo during her fight.

that also reminds me: all the dramatic reveals in this game felt kinda badly done.

the very first one with zer0/katagawa. like the whole time i was walking around looking for him i was trying to think why he might've turned/something must have happened to him or rhys. everyone was saying it was undeniably zer0. i finally meet him and take one look at his bright ass maliwan armor and its like. really. you couldnt have made it anymore obvious that thats not zer0. and then his helmet gets knocked off and surprise! it's not him. i totally didnt already figure that out with one glance 10 seconds ago. (maybe even earlier when you got glimpses of him around the building but i always missed it cuz i was looking at the fish tanks n shit)

also the tannis reveal. she was speaking to me in the same way that only known siren characters could. weird unexplained things were happening and seemed to be related to tannis. i wonder if she's a siren? surprise! she's a siren.

tyreen and troy knew about the great vault through some unknown means. typhon was talking about having a son and a daughter who he told stories about the great vault. typhon calls tyreen his daughter a while later and lilith acts surprised like honey ur a little slow, i figured that out several lines ago.

basically i'm not saying they were so obvious that i knew from the beginning of the game; i only figured them out a little before they were outright stated. but it was enough that it kinda ruined the effect and the characters acting surprised only when it was blatantly spelled out for them just made it annoying.

i feel like most of this is pretty negative, but i don’t mean that i hate the game and was miserable playing it. it was honestly okay...like i said i wanted to like it, but gearbox hates me specifically and killed/ruined all my faves just to spite me sooo...*waves hand back and forth in a sort of “ehhh” gesture*. i think my opinion on bl games from most to least fav would be: tftbl, bltps, bl2, bl3, and bl1. so it’s not the worst, but deeefinitely not one of my faves. i mean jack’s not in it (or if he is he doesn’t have a big role) so it’s already at a huge disadvantage. the ending was ok, it was all dramatic n stuff and it kinda makes sense i guess, but it was just about as okay as the rest of the game really. i don’t hate it but it’s not great either yknow?

[mgladkikh]

Physicians and BC’s Opioid Crisis

In 2016, the BC’s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency in response to the rise of substance abuse-related overdoses and deaths. Illicit drug deaths in BC have dramatically increased since 2012. One of the main contributors to this upsetting trend was the introduction of fentanyl into the illicit drug market. Fentanyl is a type of opioid that is generally used in hospital settings under strict supervision. It can also be prescribed to people with long-term, severe pain by a doctor. Due to its powerfully addictive nature, fentanyl – like other opioids – has become a popular and cheap street drug.

This has had significant implications on practice standards for physicians in British Columbia: the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons (the “College”) has taken a proactive role in developing safe practice guidelines for prescribing opioids safely and effectively and minimizing risk to patients and the public. The College’s 2016 Safe Prescribing of Drugs with Potential for Misuse/Diversion document (the “Document”) sets out reformed rules for prescribing drugs with abuse potential. This is likely to impact future medical malpractice litigation.

Standards vs Guidelines

The Document is noteworthy because it establishes both professional standards as well as guidelines for physicians in BC. It distinguishes “standards” from “guidelines” as follows:

A standard reflects the lowest bar of professional behaviour and ethical conduct on a specific topic/issues expected by the College of all physicians. It reflects relevant legal requirements enforceable under the Health Professions Act and College bylaws.

A guideline reflects the recommended course of action, established on the values, principles and duties of the medical profession, on a specific topic/issue as set out by the College. Physicians may exercise reasonable discretion in conforming to established guidelines, and may deviate from them where they have a comprehensively documented rationale to do so.  

The Scope of Malpractice Liability

In BC, physicians must provide “proper medical care” within the scope of their expertise. In other words, physicians must conform to customary practices of other physicians in their field of expertise in Canada. Physicians who do not do so are likely committing medical malpractice.

The Standard of Care for Physicians

To make a medical malpractice care, the plaintiff must establish that their physician failed to meet their standard of care. In Canada, the standard of care in the context of medical malpractice was identified in Ter Neuzen v Korn:

Physicians have a duty to conduct their practice in accordance with the conduct of a prudent and diligent doctor in the same circumstances. In the case of a specialist (e.g. in the case of a gynecologist and obstetrician), the physician’s conduct must be assessed in light of the conduct of other ordinary specialists practicing in the field of specialty, who possess a reasonable level of knowledge, competence and skill expected of such professionals in Canada.

This does not mean that physicians have to act perfectly; rather, they have to act “prudently” and “reasonably”. In Ter Neuzen, the Court determined that conformity with an approved practice is almost a total defence to medical malpractice, except in rare cases.

Liability in medical malpractice is not imposed on the basis that risks materialized in the course of providing viable and recognized treatment. In other words, a physician who performs a risky procedure that is considered standard practice is not liable in malpractice if the patient starts suffering side-effects.

Evolving Medical Knowledge

Physicians are expected to keep abreast of new developments in standards of care for patience. However, where new procedures/practices have developed, physicians will not be found liable for practicing “old” techniques unless those techniques have been proven ineffective/inefficient by comparison.  

In Ediger v Johnston, the Court recognized that guidelines do not determine the legal standard of care, but may inform its application.

Interpreting the Document

The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (the “CPS”) is a reference book published by the Canadian Pharmacists Association that is meant to help healthcare professionals prescribe safely and appropriately. Courts have previously interpreted the CPS guidelines as “recommendations” or “warnings”, akin to the Document’s guidelines.

The standards set out in the Document are worded to avoid such an interpretation; this restricts the discretion that physicians may exercise in professional practice. Importantly, some standards do permit some discretion to be exercised. For example, standard 5 provides that physicians must always prescribe the lowest effective dosage of opioid medication; but what qualifies as the “lowest effective dosage” may vary under the circumstances. Conversely, standard 13 provides that physicians must not prescribed combinations of stimulants with benzodiazepines and/or sedative hypnotics; this plainly identifies forbidden conduct which leaves no room for the exercise of individual physician discretion. Therefore, to avoid medical malpractice claims or professional discipline from the College, physicians must act in strict compliance with certain standards and with little derogation from other standards as set out in the Document. This can, understandably, be confusing for some physicians.

Consequences for Physicians

While it is likely to be predicative of the legal standard of care, the Document does not set the standard of care at common law. In fact, there is no single document that can unilaterally determine when a physician has acted negligently in prescribing medication. However, physicians who act outside the confines of the Document are potentially opening themselves up to malpractice claims in court.

More notably, physicians who fail to follow the Document likely face discipline proceedings by the College. The College’s statutory grant of authority permit it to determine and enforce professional standards in the public interest. The Document is one way in which the College has set out minimum professional and ethical obligations with respect to writing prescriptions. This indicates that compliance with the Document is necessary for the College to fulfill its public protection mandate.

In the administrative law context, there is no conceptual gap between the minimum professional and ethical behaviors set out in the Document and the conduct that physicians must abide by in order to avoid discipline by the College. The College has the power to resolve disciplinary matters with discretion, and departures from the Document may result in a variety of sanctions.  

Challenges Facing Physicians

Patients – especially those who are already struggling with substance abuse problems – can use smoke and mirrors to manipulate or pressure physicians into inappropriately prescribing drugs. For instance, in 2017, the College discovered a BC man who “doctor shopped” to obtain opioids and benzodiazepines; over the course of 4 months, the man had gotten 10 different doctors to write 26 prescriptions in order to perpetuate his addiction. The College provided that all doctors involved in the man’s care were directed to attend courses on safe prescribing practices.

This matter demonstrates the College’s commitment to upholding its new standards and guidelines that govern the medical use of opioids and other drugs with potential for abuse. While it cannot be said that the Document definitively sets out a new legal standard of care for physicians in BC, it is likely that the Document will guide the future application of the physician standard of care in BC’s courts.

The College’s stringent expectations of physicians has created a “prescription chill”. Patients who legitimately require opioids, stimulants and benzodiazepines have increasingly experienced difficulties in obtaining such medications. This has meant that, at times, physicians have redirected patients to alternative treatments like physiotherapy which are not covered by MSP and can be expensive without extended coverage. But while physicians are not supposed to discriminate against new patients who present challenging issues regarding drug use, they are also not expected to prescribe inappropriately in accordance with patient demands.

Conclusion

A 2019 study found that regulatory interventions have had a modest effect in influencing prescribing patterns of health care providers, with observed decreases in the number of existing users of opioids and benzodiazepines. However, the study found little effect in overall consumption of opioids and benzodiazepines at the population level. This means that the Document has had an effect on the prescribing behaviors of physicians in BC.

At present, physicians in BC are trapped between a rock and a hard place: they are tasked with striking a precarious balance between prescribing drugs with a potential for abuse to patients who legitimately need them, and curbing the over-prescription of those same drugs for the rest of the population to tackle the drug abuse epidemic. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that it is not yet clear whether/how big of a conceptual gap exists between the College’s and the conduct that satisfies the legal duty of care. It will be interesting to see how courts will apply the legal standard of care in view of the strict professional and ethical obligations set out in the Document, and how that legal standard of care will direct physicians to take on the opioid crisis in BC.

FURTHER READING:

http://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/189/40/E1270.full.pdf

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/prescribing-of-adhd-stimulants-has-soared-in-b-c-agency-warns

CLEBC, “The Legal Significance of the College of Physicians and Surgeons New Prescribing Standards for Opioids”

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/death-review-panel/literature_review_-_drp_report_on_illicit_drug_overdose_deaths.pdf

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/statistical/illicit-drug.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3e2d/99c4d906cd1c19a83d6e0988c9ae7d7dae02.pdf

[ncmagroup]

By Lachlan Brown

If you want to see the best Buddha quotes in one place, then you’ll LOVE this post.

I’ve personally gone through hundreds of Buddha quotes to pick out his top 100.

And you can filter through the list below to find the topics that most interest you.

But first, a brief introduction about the great man named Gautama Buddha.

Who Was Gautama Buddha?

Buddha was a spiritual teacher who lived in India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BC.

His philosophy ended up creating the religion of Buddhism and tends to counter much of what we’re taught in the West.

After many years spent in deep meditation, he realized that attachment and desiring lead to unhappiness.

He believed that enlightenment, or “Nirvana“, was achieved when one’s mind is compassionate, free of attachment and focused on the present moment.

He spent his entire life teaching others how to free themselves from suffering and live a life of compassion, fearlessness, and joy.

So without further ado, here are the most inspiring 50 quotes from Gautama Buddha:

On Living In The Present Moment

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

On Achieving Enlightenment 

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

“Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.”

“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, the illusion is the root of evil.”

“To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.”

“Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.”

“The one in whom no longer exist the craving and thirst that perpetuate becoming; how could you track that Awakened one, trackless, and of limitless range.”

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”

On Love

“True love is born from understanding.”

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

“Love is a gift of one’s innermost soul to another so both can be whole.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

“Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so, let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.”

On Your Mind

“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speaks or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”

“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”

“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it.”

“Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”

On Anger

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.”

“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

On Compassion

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgment but rain your kindness equally on all.”

“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”

“If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?”

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.”

“Give, even if you only have a little.”

“Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind?”

“We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by loving-kindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.”

“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.”

“Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.”

On Your Words

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

“The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.”

“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

“If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

“Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.”

“Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.”

On Doubt

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

On Your Ideas

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

“Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”

“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”

“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”

On Suffering

“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.”

“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

On Your Self

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”

“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”

“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”

“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”

“Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out”

“Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.”

“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”

“You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.”

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

“She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair.”

“I am the miracle.”

On Gratitude

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”

On Fear

“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.”

On Meditation

“Meditate… do not delay, lest you later regret it.”

On Death

“Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.”

“Live every act fully, as if it were your last.”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

On Happiness

“One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.”

“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”

“A man asked Gautama Buddha, ‘I want happiness.’ Buddha said, ‘First remove I, that’s Ego, then remove want, that’s Desire. See now you are left with only Happiness.’ ”

“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.”

On Changing the World

“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life and one life can change the world.”

On Friends and Relationships

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

“Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.”

“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

On Being Noble

“One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.”

“Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well-spoken words: this is good luck.”

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 obsession, an unhealthy amount, helps; though this also be a source of mental laceration, terminal guilt, and ire directed both from and to others. i am an insane revisionist. or rather i am a revisionist to the point of insanity. i live breathe bleed words however i consider who i am more in line with my name than the name of the type of person who produces what i produce. some people want that label - and pretty funny that by the desire it becomes exactly a non-label - which is quite sinister. i used to think people being fake was a cliche rather than something to take seriously - not in the sense of omission, like, what you tell your coworker vs. what you tell your wife, or even hiding oneself out of shame - but like literally not being yourself. and, moreover, that people were generally sincere and wanted to be sincere and work for that etc. but now i know people will not only be fake unawares but consciously be that way and leech and leech. and this is not even lit i am talking about just fucking life. you see. i have worked hard at the written word, very hard. too hard. indeed i say this as an objective fact and not to gloat as the whole damnable bunch of it got me nowhere and nearly killed me. like obsession to the point of basically destroying everything. so i have learned brevity, honesty, sincerity. i have learned to not see this online variorum of mine as anything special at all. the words i post, the things i say, how i form myself in this abstract realm. utterly unknown and unfamous i am but that is not my aim and good luck at getting noticed in the arts as my father is an actor and has been for around half a century and holy hell you will have no idea who he is. but i will continue to be me which means writing all the time among other things, because writing is fun as hell and conveying something is. i think this whole movement thing/idea is fun and everything but at the end of the day i write for nobody but me who is body ultimate. yet i wish to stir people. i want to throw the small swarm in my chest back at the hive and do good words. for it is an action, a penance to my god. or a prayer even. all it is are prayers. the elliptical nature of ammons’ dispositional axis proves that something does stick around tho it moves and this is called transcendence. time passes but it takes awhile for the effects of its discoveries to take hold, similar to the psychological imprint of a horrible event. that being said i know i have a long way to go still which is the greatest doubt of all, a most positive doubt. and in examining myself as eternally infant regarding understanding anything at all much less making something artful, i will - and funny, this - unknowingly stumble upon perhaps what might not change the world but tweak it maybe. and it’ll be better for me not forcing anything. like conrad aiken i am determined to be minor and i guess i would force my insignificance. which does not necessarily mean i cannot start at the keyboard with a great idea and wish to change nay the universe itself. that is how i do it: i think, this can really shake things up, write, and say to myself - ah what garbage - then decide after reading it and incessantly editing and whatnot that maybe it is good tho what i thought was good at one point or the best shit on god’s green earth three years ago i barely spend brainspace on nowadays and maybe tao lin is the founder of blablabla who knows. a movement is something else. it resembles a sort of like ‘ontical’ nature bc its being is outside of language but also a product of language and dependent on anything one might consider absolute or permanent. i am not saying that language is permanent, and we have hundreds of years – ‘whan that aprille with his showres sote’ [chaucer] etc. - of proof of that but its attempt is at permanence which in a funny way is a thing like ‘sense’ or ‘reason’. there is a core to things outside of what we name that is maybe a name before the flood. i like this name for she is an impenetrable name, as like this primeval definitionless state of being [dasein] i describe, or don’t. but any movement, no matter if tao lin starts it or fucking voldemort from harry potter, will unknowingly incorporate a prior zeitgeist that in its way is too an attempt to return to that impenetrability so as like it to become impenetrable, absolute, and so then immortal. i am sure you as others will see the concentric reality here. we want what we cannot have so arch our spines to look at our feet and deify the impermanent so as to dialectically, impossibly, remove that permanent, restless, shifting core above us, which is death itself. anyway: the most important thing is to work at it and work at it and to not let other things get in the way, not of you aping an influence, but of you attempting the sublime. knowing you are fated to eat up the ghost of what people have already done, and swerving the creative atom in a new direction despite. heh. “everything, everything, everything is poetry:” [a.r. ammons] artist is artist man. i am no writer, just DAN. myself. art is getting high. being higher than ever putting together something getting slowly clearer in your head whatnot. paterson williams etc. laundry list note on the refrigerator art - is art. all’s art. someplace to put it is art rather. or isn’t. artist? art? what