Looking In, Looking Out

[Mitka]

Footnote ...

Someone pointed out to me that there are more bacteria cells in and on one than body cells, and they participate in a very real way in one's health and existence.

Read a book about this not too long ago: I Contain Multitudes by Ed Young: https://www.amazon.com/Contain-Multi.../dp/0062368591. Not only do the microbes that live within us help us digest food and fight infection, they actually shape our behavior and share some of their genetic traits with their hosts, splicing some of their genes into our genome and giving us their genetic traits. So we really can't say that we are humans that happen to host colonies of microbes that are distinct from us; we are the microbes that live inside of us and the microbes are us!

My microbes are now telling me to sit zazen before I go to bed.

Gassho.

Matthew
SAT

[Billy]

I read that book and it was great. We owe our lives to our little companions, without them it would be difficult to continue.

Sat/lah
Billy

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[Joyo]

This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing, Jundo.

Gassho,
Joyo
sat today/lah

[Washin]

Wonderful! Thank you, Jundo.
So much to reflect on..

Gassho
Washin
sattoday

[Doshin]

http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-we-are-living-in-an-inspiring-and-unimaginably-large-universe-contemplating-the-immensity-agapi-stassinopoulos-156-52-84.jpg

Doshin
St

[Sekishi]

Lovely. Thank you Jundo and dear Sangha.

Nine bows,
Sekishi #sat

[Kyonin]

Hi Jundo,

Thank you for this teaching. Looking deep within us there are countless universes. Looking deep outside us there are countless universes. Which one is bigger? Which one is more important?

I think the are all big, important and non-big and non-important. But yes indeed, we are home.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Jundo]

Hi Jundo,

Thank you for this teaching. Looking deep within us there are countless universes. Looking deep outside us there are countless universes. Which one is bigger? Which one is more important?

I think the are all big, important and non-big and non-important. But yes indeed, we are home.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

A scientist friend is fascinated by fractals ... and if we look down to the small or up to the large one finds fractals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZM45mfJQ40

But, not only that, one finds fractals within fractals withing fractals ... on and on ... (I usually don't post videos like this, but this is nice ... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_eNQFcv5E

Now, that being said ... let us just chop wood from the fractal trees, and fetch water from the fractal rivers.

Gassho, J

StTodayLAH

[Mp]

Now, that being said ... let us just chop wood from the fractal trees, and fetch water from the fractal rivers. [emoji14]

=)

Gassho
Shingen

Sat/LAH

[Sekiyuu]

Uh oh... you posted a video mentioning videogames AND procedural generation... I wrote a chapter in a book about that:

https://www.crcpress.com/Procedural-Generation-in-Game-Design/Short-Adams/p/book/9781498799195

Here's ANOTHER game about precisely this topic of universes within and without:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJk8ROpuEo