Tag: zen
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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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The Illusion Paradox: Exploring the Thin Veneer of Truth in a World of Illusions
Out on our morning walk.Wow. Someone has gone to the trouble of stencilling this on their driveway. Perhaps they felt it would be useful reminder squinting out through their ice-scraped windshield as they back out into a freezing Canberra morning. In a world gone mad, it curves a half-smile across my sagging colon to think…
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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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Flipping switches.
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn’t depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn’t depend on how long you’ve held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that…
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Podcast: Why and How to Meditate.
In this latest podcast from The Huberman Lab, Andrew looks at the latest scientific evidence about meditation: [In this podcast I look at] the state changes that occur during different types of mediation and describe how to develop the mediation practice optimal for you. I explain key meditation principles, such as using specific breathwork patterns…
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Four simple questions.
In this first of a series of videos, four simple questions are asked to Prof Karl John Friston, Science Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London and Lisa Cairns, a non-duality teacher. The four questions: Their conversation ranges across awakening experiences, dyslexia, autism, hallucinogens, free energy principle, big and little…
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The place where I sit.
The term zazen means sitting-zen. And zen is just a word for meditation. Nothing mysterious. Nothing esoteric.Zen is simply the practice of meditation.Meditation is simply a discipline of abiding wholeheartedly in the present moment as it unfolds without adding anything extra. And boy do we add a lot. I sit zazen in the corner of…
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I’ll see you on the other side of sesshin.
Well Im about to go off grid for a week. I will be attending the yearly sesshin (an intensive 7 day meditation retreat. Sesshin literally means: touching the heart-mind) with the Black Mountain Zen group. The retreat is being held at a beautiful location beside Lake George just outside of Canberra. I’m all packed for…
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