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If you find current generative media developments confusing (deepfakes, HQ generative music, etc.), you'll be truly confused by the mid 2020s when computational & biological generative systems start to heavily intertwingle. Better start to cultivate a meditation practice today.
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A Poem from Cold Mountain, translated by Red Pine. #Mindful
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"From Self to Nonself: The Nonself Theory" - by Yung-Jong Shiah:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00124/full"The Process of Self-Cultivation and the Mandala Model of the Self" - by Meiyao Wu:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5259693/#!po=2.94118These are great reads! I will draw from this next year, when writing a few pieces outlining a self-cultivation theory/praxis of human computer interaction, as third path beyond augmentation and automation.
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The Principles of Psychology - William James (1890): #Mindful
https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin9.htm https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/james/william/principles/chapter19.html
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Random Collection #Mindful Links:
From Self to Nonself: The Nonself Theory:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00124/fullThe Art of Self-Care: Vitalizing Practices of Mindfulness and Qigong: https://www.slideshare.net/colleenloehr1/the-art-of-selfcare-vitalizing-practices-of-mindfulness-and-qigong
Happiness Workshop I: What Happiness Is and What' Happiness Isn't: https://www.slideshare.net/michael_mascolo/Happiness-Workshop-I
Cengzi’s Commentaries on the Great Learning & the Nei-yeh: http://donlehmanjr.com/China/nei-yeh/nei-yeh%2030.htm
Nicely done Video by http://www.janet-lau.com/
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LESS Augmentation (Attempt to overcome the current limitations of the human body/mind)
MORE Self-Cultivation (Process of continuously reflecting upon, elaborating & putting into practice the values & meanings that guide our actions in the world) -
Daoist Wisdom For Our Times - talk by Shantena Sabbadini:
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Meditation in the Time of Disruption:
https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/10/25/18010314/meditation-headspace-insight-timer-apps #MindfulMindfulness and meditation have become big business for tech-savvy entrepreneurs. But can you really unplug and reset while tied to an app on your phone? Companies like Headspace and Insight Timer say yes. But longtime practitioners, philosophers, and scientists aren’t so sure.
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Practice and Realization are one: Once upon a time during the Tang Dynasty in China, there was a monk called Mazu Daoyi who was undergoing training. One day, he was practicing zazen alone when along came his teacher, Nanyue Huairang (Nangaku Ejo, in Japanese), who asked, “Brother, your zazen is truly admirable, but just what are you trying to accomplish by it?”
“I’m trying to bring about realization,” Mazu answered, and at this Nanyue fetched a tileand began rubbing it on a rock. Mazu, seeing this and thinking it strange, asked, “What are you doing?” “I’m going to polish it and make a mirror,” Nanyue responded. When Mazu objected Nanyue retorted, “Even if you polish it you can’t make a mirror of a tile!” “And do you think you can awaken realization by practicing zazen?”
This is a little story which warns us not to use zazen as a means of gaining realization. There is a deep philosophical meaning here, but not even going into that, Zen teaches that practice is not to be used as a means of gaining realization, and that true actualization is pure and does not seek rewards or compensation. There is something our every day minds find difficult to agree with, but somehow or another we must see it this way if our actualization is to be genuine. This is a fact which confronts us twenty-four hours a day seven days a week.
There is the following passage in Mr. Jiro Abe’s Santaro’s Diary:
“We grow through romantic love. Whether this love succeeds or fails, we still grow. However, to love in order to grow is not real love; it is only an experiment in love. As long as we consciously have growth as a goal, an experiment in love cannot be complete. When neither success nor failure can change this love, then for the first time the experience permeates our very being. As a result of that kind of love, we grow..
via https://global.sotozen-net.or.jp/eng/library/stories/book1.html #Mindful
