ryujiro

Ignorance. It is best said by the Zen monk Takuan Soho that it is "Delusion". Through my vigorous journey to find enlightenment, I have heightened my level of perception. I thought I could look out onto the world and see truth, know truth. Delusion as I said, is ignorance. My search for truth was, now that I look back on it, the product of ignorant and delusional biased self interest. Yamamoto Tsunetomo said it best; "If one goes about solving situations with only self interest at heart, he will not excel in the way". I had attempted to solve the situation of my ignorant conscious beliefs through study, in the hope that knowledge would incr

Unemployment. The lowest state of existence one can inhabit in today's current social-economic paradigm. One, to my own disappointment, currently inhabit. It's not the lack of monetary income that bugs me. It's having nothing to do, nothing to preoccupy myself. It's like being a prisoner  in ones own home. Depression makes you unmotivated. So when you wake up, all you want to do is sleep longer. When you go to bed, and try to sleep, you can't. Then when you manage to sleep, and wake up in the afternoon, all you do is watch TV. Smoke cigarettes and drink scotch. As fun as it is. It is still an inadequate position to fill. Individual probl

I found myself in a hotel styled  office building, the contemporary modern architecture a sign of the millions of dollars invested into it. I was smoking a cigarette, watching the target intently. My dark suit blending me into the surrounding inhabitants. The target moved through a corridor, disappearing around the corner. I followed cautiously, as I turned the corner and drew my silenced Barretta M92FS. Cocking back the slide, I checked to see the bullets in the magazine. Aiming the gun forward, I proceeded down the corridor. I approached the corner, and with a quick tactical manoeuvre I moved myself and the gun around. But the corridor was