Lucidness

The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma proposes that “Not creating delusions is enlightenment.” That got me thinking about the multitude of ways we create delusions.

• Leaping from weak evidence to strong conclusions
• Collapsing spectrums into dichotomies
• Projecting our interpretations, beliefs and assumptions
• Transforming dynamic processes into static things
• Over-generalizing and over-simplifying
• Trying to create permanence where there can be none
• Using language that converts subjective evaluations into “objective facts”