Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

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

Other good talks:

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.

法 (fa3) is the Chinese name for Dharma, and sometimes used as a way short way to refer to Buddhism.

Psalm 46:10 from the bible:

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.

Perhaps the appeal of Zen is that it stepped away from Mahayana's "God and entities", and went a bit back towards the Buddhist psychology-like/self improvement grassroots?

They do two things:

We can't see individual stars outside of the Milky Way:Any single star outside of the Milky Way cannot be seen.

The Large Magellanic Cloud stands out as the brightest thing we can see from outside the Milky Way by far!