Death Is A Companion For All Of

Life Is Suffering. We Have Desires And Expectations And Egos, And We Compare The Reality We Have, Which Is Miraculous And Wondrous, With This Reality We Desire. That Somehow Distances Us From Actually Taking Part Fully With The Reality We Do Have, And That Creates Suffering. For Me, The Thing That I Love Is That It's All About The Present Moment.

I Am So Spoiled. I Cannot Watch A Show Where It Gets Interrupted For Ads. I Have To Tivo It And Skip Through The Ads, Because The Culture Of Advertising Is So False And Phony That I Just... Ugh, You Know?

I Definitely See The Good In People. Certainly In My Own Life I Strive To Be Somebody Who Is Functional And Well Adjusted And Can Face Conflict In A Non-emotional And Non-destructive Way, And Those Are The People I Try To Surround Myself With In My Life. But As Characters, They Bore Me.

Directing Is Physically Exciting Because There's A Ticking Clock, You're Working With People, It's Very Social, It's Very Enjoyable.

And As I Stumbled Onto Eastern Philosophy And Buddhism, It Was The First Time I Had Ever Read Any Sort Of Philosophy That Really Made A Tremendous Amount Of Sense. What I Liked That Was Missing From My Experience Of Christianity Growing Up Was A Sort Of Acceptance, A Sort Of Being Ok With Being Imperfect And Not Focusing On The Sin.