I have a hunch there’ll be things in Roche’s work that you find refreshing. He’s a neat dude, interesting backstory. Completely different goals and approach than Cutting Machine. Roche is working much more in the lane of “meditation as nutrition” style, than...
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Oh, for sure. I'm so far down the Cutting Machinery rabbit hole now that seeing it all the way through is a top priority, though.
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Like I'm not going to get this far through the job and then just say "actually turn the machine off, I'd rather go be a chef!"
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Half-joking. I’m not suggesting you go be a chef. (Unless you want to. Being an enlightened chef would be an interesting journey and the world could use a few.)
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Leave that one to the Vajrayana guys. Cooking with demons, a primer.
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In Soviet Tibet, sometimes demons eat •you•*
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*may or may not be speaking from personal experience
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I went ahead and ate the demons. This wasn't mentioned in the cookbook, but hey.
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Yep, nice.
Part of vajrayana seems to be learning how to scribble cookbook pages quickly but in a convincing font, showing it to the demons, and then yeah, sometimes they read your recipe, and climb
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I’d wager a few other crews other than team vajra...
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...have independently converged in this move as well
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Me, I did the Chöd stuff. "Here is a filling meal for you, o terrible one. Eat me, drink m- actually just kidding, get eaten, you!"
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The thing is, most of the time those demons have already been eating one’s head for a long time, so it’s not necessarily bad manners to invite them to dinner, and then have ‘em for dinner. They’re well fed.
Besides, they’ve taught one already and offered the gift that they...
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...came to bring. Not bad table manners to chow down, and I think many Tibetan-tradition teachers would endorse this view
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