mindfulness | mindfulness
Oct.28.2010
Thought plows the field of Consciousness.Feelings grow.Ontologically*, nothing changes.
*Ontology (psychologically, not philosophically) is the knowledge of one’s unchanging identity. The rest is informational (experiential) metamorphosis.
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Sep.17.2010
Let me listen to me and not to them.
—Gertrude Stein
I bought Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally because it was listed on Amazon.com as “frequently bought together” with my own book, Bluebird.
(Surely there are worse reasons to buy a book).
And anyway,...
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Aug.27.2010
My neighbor's water heater blew up and water flooded everywhere including into our garage. Lots of things are soaked and have to be dried out. That in itself is aggravating since things just don't dry out in this town. With gray fog, ocean humidity and cool temperatures, mold and fungus are...
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Aug.25.2010
I have so many opportunities for thinking smug. One way to be smug is not to use a cell phone (except when one really has to, like, in my case, when I'm on a trip and want to check in on my mother who is 88 years old). So, yesterday, standing behind a woman at the checkout at Winco, I could be smug...
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Aug.06.2010
There are two ways to look at yourself and reality: a) dualistically—as either perfect or imperfect, or b) nondualistically—as neither perfect nor imperfect. So, there is your choice of psychological software: seeing the world as a discrepancy between what is and should be or seeing the world as...
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Jul.01.2010
The following is a both an entertaining and illuminating passage of self-discovery from Richard Hughe’s 1929 novel “High Wind in Jamaica.”
“And then an event did occur, to Emily, of considerable importance. She suddenly realized who she was.
[…] She had been playing houses in a nook right in...
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Jun.07.2010
Teilhard de Chardin, who in 1925 coined the term noosphere “to denote the sphere of mind,” (1) offers this on Threshold of Reflection:
“Reflection is, as the word indicates, the power acquired by a consciousness to turn in upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an object endowed with its...
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May.27.2010
According to the Tibetans, today is Buddha’s birthday. A prince with everything in the world, he set off on a quest to discover the truth of life. I’m remembering a mindfulness adventure I had this week, fifteen years ago:
Bornean Buddha by A.Ashman
In Borneo, I felt bored and restless at a luxe...
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Apr.28.2010
CNN reports: "S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list was released on Monday at a celebrity-chef-studded event in London, England, marking the ninth edition of the much buzzed-about (and hotly debated) catalogue of the international culinary landscape."
Alinea...
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Apr.23.2010
Sarah Silverman is pattern-interruption gold: she has used merciless self-examination in public as an effective social commentary mirror. Her new book's title "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee" says it all. Silverman's mind-mirror seems to be coated with teflon-...
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