random musings
Zen and the art of Ingress

Ingress is an augmented reality game from Google. It features portals, points of significance in people's lives: statues, buildings etc. and two teams. The teams vie for control of portals by capturing them for their colour. They then form links between three portals in a triangle to colour it as a field for their team. […]

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martial arts
Fudoshin

I wrote this essay almost eight years ago. I'm just republishing it in a web format. In many eastern religions, and indeed their occidental counterparts, great emphasis is placed in reaching states of personal enlightenment or self-improvement. In Zen, this is often approached from several angles (See D.T. Suzuki [2]), but perhaps the most well […]

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