The problem I have with Buddhism is that every old dharma teacher looks the same: powerful in mind and spirit, but frail in body. I want the embodied version of Buddhism—one that unites spiritual insight with AI, information theory, physics, biology, health/medicine, and evolution. These fields all point to the same truth: the body is an energy system. It's not meant to be still. It's meant to move, pulse, vibrate, and express. The old Buddhists are so unhealthy because in their quest to sit quietly with suffering they are trashing their bodies. Our bodies are energy systems, constantly in motion, literally vibrating all the way down. As soon as you get the insight of the mind from Buddhism, stop sitting and start moving.

For people trying for 1st jhana U might enjoy trying this: after getting focused for a while on your breath think of a time when U laughed really hard and couldn’t stop, then laugh out loud for a while! When U stop laughing enjoy the feeling in your body

YOU are who YOU believe YOU are

Buddhism is primarily concerned with overcoming suffering through the elimination of craving and attachment. It imposes no obligation to improve the world. Its ultimate goal conflicts with the very desires and attachments that motivate achievement.

“Through many births I wandered in samsara, seeking the builder of the house… O house-builder, you are seen! You shall build no house again..." — Dhammapada

I just don't understand how you're supposed to not be constantly insecure. The world is so fraught, your position in it is always so precarious. Should you not be constantly in fear of falling out of the worlds favor? Doesn't it make sense?

Knowledge is relative to the known. In a way it is the counterpart of ignorance. Where ignorance is not, where is the need of knowledge? By themselves neither ignorance nor knowledge have being. They are only states of mind.