Ethics statement

Tldr; I am not a teacher or authority on anything. I’m just as fucked up as anyone. But if you find what I have to share interesting or helpful, stay for a while.

Super Lotus is an experiment for me, Chase Bauer, to carve out a corner of the internet that makes sense to me and share it with people who are interested. If you don’t like something, that is OK. But this space does not need to adhere to the expectations of others. I aspire that my commitment to listening, kindness, learning, and humility is self evident. The following are some guidelines I set for myself that hope will give context for how I host this space.

  • Though I am qualified to give meditation instruction, I am not an empowered lineage holder or certified teacher in any organization. I do not feel that I have special access to wisdom that I can somehow sell to you. I am just some guy who has loved the dharma for a long time, and stumbled (to put it lightly) along the way. Super Lotus operates in the spirit of peer support, not hierarchal posturing. I hope to learn just as much as I share here.

    I am a straight-passing, cis white boy who was raised with great privileges. You are allowed to poke fun at that and call me out. I am always learning and I am open to hear what you have to say.

  • There are many programs for recovery where we can find mentorship with people who have years of sobriety under their belts. I am not one of those people. I have struggled with chronic relapses and I am still grappling with what qualifies as sobriety at all. I am here to present my journey in recovery in hopes that some of my experiences may serve your liberation as well as my own. I will make mistakes and I am not pure. But I believe that even those of us who still suffer from the conniving grips of addiction in its myriad forms have contagious wisdom we can share with each other when we learn how to trust it.

  • I do not have an art school degree or an extensive imdb profile. My laurels are few and humble. I am not book smart. I trust my taste and you may not share it, and that is ok. But I have have a deep devotion for the resonance art in all of its forms creates, and I believe art can transmit authentic truths. I’m here to share what moves me, and it’s no more complicated than that.