Archive for Category: Zen

Randomly stumbled on this. It reminded me of the perfect bad-beat mindset.
A Zen master, Hakuin, was praised by his neighbours as one living a pure life.
A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.
This made her parents angry. She [...]

… do not talk about it. It is hard to collect spilled water.
I think that’s a perfect way of looking at our instinctive reactions to all of the shit stuff we end up going through as poker players.
Expensive bluffs, mis-clicks, coolers, outdraws — they happen. Water gets spilled and we explode into analysis mode, [...]