If a lion skulked around apologizing for its beautiful mane and feeling guilty about its physical prowess, it would cease to be majestic.

“This is in Zen parlance called the no-gate barrier, or the gateless gate. Because, it looks like a gate, a barrier, something to be attained, some entrance to a special in-group, so long as you’re standing outside it. But the moment you cross the border, the gate vanishes, so does the wall. And you see everybody at all, everybody in the world, as manifestations of the Buddha nature, or we’d say in Western terms of the divine power, and you see they’re all just behaving marvelously in their ignorance.” — Alan Watts, Future of Religion

Bitcoin is gold for the digital age.

The Way.

To be sufficiently bullish on gold/silver over Bitcoin, one must imagine a bleak mad-max style future where the internet goes out forever, armed men trade heavy rocks with one another to buy cans of tuna, and civilization as we know it ceases to exist. Reject doomerism. Embrace Bitcoin.

Cypherpunks shall inherit the earth.

There are infinite dollars waiting to be printed. There are only 21M Bitcoin.

You can’t send gold over the internet. You can send Bitcoin.

Have a blessed Sunday.

“the mysterious “it” in “it is raining.”” — Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

How it feels just before finding Bitcoin

“Bodhidharma had said repeatedly to Eka, I have nothing to teach, go away. But Eka was so convinced that Bodhidharma had some secret which he could convey to him, that at last as a token of sincerity he cut off one of his arms while standing outside the teacher’s hut in the freezing snow and presented it to the teacher, crying. My mind is not pacified. Master, pacify my mind. Bodhidharma says, if you bring me that mind, I will pacify it for you. Eka said, when I search for my mind, I cannot hold it. Bodhidharma said, then your mind is pacified already. It is said that at this moment Eka had a sudden insight into the whole mystery of life, the problem of peace of mind, and the essential meaning of Buddhism itself.” — Alan Watts, The Gateless Gate

The de₿asement trade

JPM is basically the last domino to fall before total Bitcoin domination

PSA for recently-minted Bitcoiners:

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” — Alan Watts, The Way of Zen

The people who lived through COVID, and still see no reason to doubt the claims of the pharma industrial complex, aren’t ready to be unplugged.

That thou art.

If you have the same or more Bitcoin today than yesterday, you are on The Way.