Tag: Zen

• The art of finding the mind’s construction in the face

  During Covid, I found that I sometimes had the most interesting conversations when I didn’t mean to. Most people hear, but fewer listen unless you make eye contact with them; this was often difficult when I was standing in those little socially distanced footsteps painted on the floor of the grocery store checkout lines and…

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  July 5, 2023

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  backs, conversations, Douglas Harding, faces, masks, meditation, Mind, On Having No Head, pandemic, philosophy, social distancing, things, true nature, Zen

• In praise of an empty brain

  How do I love thee, Age? Let me count the ways… Well, actually I’m not actually going to, because of late, I’ve fallen out with it. Perhaps it’s just my memory that’s falling, though: I was about to parody Shakespeare -it’s what I knew I knew, and yet I didn’t (it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning.…

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  May 26, 2021

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  awe, beginner’s mind, Christian Jarrett, climate, Enlightenment, expertise, experts, French revolution, history, hubris, intellectual humility, knowledge, peak knowledge, Psyche.co, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Shoshin, St. Augustine, the Little Ice Age, Zen

• Should Life be a walking shadow?

  I have to admit that I had not heard of the ‘attention economy’ before -never even thought about it like that, in fact. And yet, when I think about attention, I suppose I’ve always heard it used as a currency, a thing that was paid to a specified ‘other’ -the thing attended to, in other…

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  August 26, 2020

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  attention, attention economy, attention-as-experience, attention-as-resource, Dan Nixon, David Loy, directed attention, exploratory attending, instrumentally attending, Mindfulness Initiative, Nirvana, reality, Samsara, Simone Weil, William James, Zen