Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘I don’t care if humans think that humans are the center of the universe. I just want the rest of the universe to be there as well…

Struggling with this question of the ultimate eradication of everything that you would think of ordinarily as personal meaning is not unrelated to struggling with this notion that ninety-nine point nine per cent of all species that ever evolved go extinct. The beauty of consciousness is that it can do that. The curse of consciousness is that it understands that…

Terror results from not being able to escape the time frame where you can only see the earth as a story of loss. Right now, everyone is seeing A.I. only as a story of loss, because they know that every aspect of their life is gonna be changed by this. And they don’t want that instability. But, in a story, in an artistic work about the moment that we live in, it can’t be emphasized enough that nothing we have done, no action that we’ve taken, no resource that we’ve extracted, no technology that we’ve created, nothing has altered in the least the life force’s ability to continue to respond to change at the same rate it has always been capable of responding.’ (from the New Yorker)