Category: Stillness
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And what is Zen?
Zen is nothing mystical or special, it is simply this. Be fully embodied in the present moment as it expresses itself,without adding anything1 extra. This is your true nature.
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Rick Ruben on the creative act.
This book, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being” by Rick Rubin, challenges misconceptions about creativity. It advocates for living life as an artist and embracing awareness in daily activities.
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Here is the world. Here are your tools.
With science, you can describe this vast world. With contemplation you can understand the science. With mysticism, you can experience the understanding. With deep ordinariness you can embody the experience.
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Exploring Idealism: Books and Interviews on Consciousness and Reality
Live the questions now. Maybe in the future, gradually, without noticing, one day away, you will live the answers. —Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Be Patient’ I am a huge fan of the philosopher Bernardo Kastrup.His stance is that the world as we perceive it is not made of solid material ‘stuff’ existing out there whilst we…
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Being you, being them.
Here is an interesting thought experiment that is useful when trying to understand the point of view of someone very different to yourself…or someone who you just don’t get. And perhaps experience some empathy and appreciation for the difference even when it is seemingly vast.1. Read through each phase and then take a few moments…
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Wild Mind.
Each morning I sit for 40 minutes. Just in the moment, without adding anything extra. Nothing to do. No one to be. Nowhere to go. Meditation reveals the basic contours of wild mind, and cultivates a return to wild mind belonging to wild earth. In its barest philosophical outlines, meditation begins with sitting quietly and…
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Video: discussions on consciousness.
Here is a video that will be of interest to those contemplative consciousness nerds out there. Mind you, if it is a little too early in the day for you to be tackling the origins of our experience of consciousness or the very structure of reality itself, you might find want to make yourself a…
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