While listening to endless hours of vaporwave while coding, Ciro Santilli spotted some amazing Buddhist-like voice samples, and eventually found that they were by Allan Watts.
Self-help? Maybe. Cult leader? Maybe. But at least it is one that Ciro buys into.
Is there a correlation between software engineers and Buddhism and liking the dude? Because this exists: wattsalan.github.io
More important than the monk itself in Chinese culture, it is used as a Budhist Amen. TODO find some usage in some Chinese television series.
This feels so right. Doesn't have to be taken so literally for non-Monks, but all have clear less-extreme applications to non monks.
The daily ordinary physical world or daily experience, pain, desire and the cycle of endless reincarnation. As opposed to the more elevated goals of spiritual enlightenment and breaking the wheel.
They do two things:
- make a closed source science journal with insanely high impact factor as of 2019
- gamify science by letting (mostly mostly British) dudes like Newton and Paul Dirac add some random letters after their real names to show off
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.