Tag: meditation

• 2026 compass.

  

  YearCompass: A free tool to reflect, learn, and design your perfect year. Dive in now!

  Ian Miller

  December 26, 2025

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, creativity, meditation, photography, poetry, technology, writing

• Embellish.

  

  Value adding to our world.

  Ian Miller

  December 15, 2025

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, creativity, meditation, photography

• My favourite things of 2025.

  I simply remember my favourite things…..and then I dont feel so bad.

  Ian Miller

  December 13, 2025

  Only Words

  Buddhism, consciousness, creativity, meditation, mindfulness, photography, writing, zen

• Koushouji Temple.

  

  Randomly stumbled into the beautiful little village of Uji this morning, and then even more randomly walked up a path that led to Koshouji temple. It turns out that this is a pretty significant Zen temple, being the first Soto Zen monastery founded by Dogen Zenji in 1233. Not too touristy. A working temple. My…

  Ian Miller

  November 23, 2025

  Journal

  blackAndWhite, Japan, meditation, photography, zen

• Recommended read: Leaving Space for Grace.

  This is the read I’ve been looking for. A long essay that explores our navigational plot through these times of existential crisis. And calibration of the compass based on Victor Frankl’s three-step model in our search for meaning. What we need, it seems (now, more than ever) are more tragic optimists. […] what we can…

  Ian Miller

  November 15, 2025

  Only Words

  AI, climateChange, meditation, psychology, socialmedia, technology

• Video: why your world is not made of STUFF.

  OK, here is my favourite philosopher of mind, Bernardo Kastrup, in conversation. This is a really clear and thought-provoking discussion of the philosophical standpoint known as idealism.

  Ian Miller

  November 3, 2025

  Found objects

  consciousness, meditation, philosophy, science

• Video: The problem with gurus.

  Ian Miller

  October 30, 2025

  Found objects

  meditation, philosophy, socialmedia, video, youtube

• Zen is a rug.

  Is Zen a religion? And what has it got to do with AC/DC?

  Ian Miller

  October 30, 2025

  Only Words

  god, meditation, philosophy, religion, zen

• Be prepared. For the unpreparable.

  So two nights ago I watched the movie House Full of Dynamite. It looked at the response (at both a human and military level) to a single nuclear missile attack on America. It was a good movie. Chilling, but good. And it got me thinking.

  Ian Miller

  October 28, 2025

  Only Words

  climateChange, health, life, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness, personal-growth, politics, war