tag > Mindful
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"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?" - Rumi
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Meditation Apps
Many of the "successful" western meditation mobile apps promote their service using images of beautiful young people with their smart phones in their hands and wireless headphones in their ears, while gently smiling and pretending to be casually "meditating" in their designer living rooms or offices. This is late capitalist bullshit at its finest - Namaste! (image source)
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Finger Pointing at the Moon
"Don't Mistake the Finger Pointing at the Moon for the Moon" - Zen Buddhist Saying
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The Leisurely Manifesto - Otium is Hard Work - The Original Affluent Society
There is vast confusion around leisure. Leisure does not mean doing nothing, etymologically it means doing what you enjoy. Leisure, not "productivity", should be the end goal of all of our work, we need to aim for something much higher than productivity
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Zuowang (坐忘) - A classic Daoist meditation technique. The non-conceptual experience of sitting and forgetting. By definition can not be expressed in words.
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"The center of the universe is really everywhere, within each of us." - Black Elk
