nibras
@nibras
Asking, "how do we human beautifully?"
nibras
"The instructions for how to Do Nothing are very short - just two sentences: let whatever happens, happen. As soon as you're aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention."
Shinzen Young [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA]
I started to meditate in a different way. I let go of the idea of what meditation was supposed to be. So I would sit down and let my experience simply be, in a very deep way. I started to let go of trying to control my experience. That became the beginning of discovering for myself what True Meditation is. From that point on, that shift - moving fr... See more
Just sitting meditation. Practising being a.k.a doing nothing a.k.a no effort
Someone set up your mind in the following hilarious way. All day long you are tortured by vicious thoughts. If you try to make them go away, that, too, becomes an unhelpful kind of self-bludgeoning. However, if you tranquilly accept whatever you’re thinking and feeling, for a period of time, eventually a different, more pleasant state of mind obtai... See more
One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people wil
... See moreOliver Burkeman • What if You Never Sort Your Life Out? | Oliver Burkeman
deck.gallery — nicely designed decks, curated
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The world doesn’t happen to us; it is shaped by us. More people now have access to simple tools that allow them to “program,” or modify, the world around them. Teaching kids that the world is programmable – whether it’s through actual coding, games like Roblox and Minecraft, encouraging them to ask for what they want, or even white-hat
... See moreNadia Asparouhova • Cultivating Agency
" Younger generations didn’t become “more technical”, per se – if anything, they’re probably less technically literate overall. It’s programming itself that became easier, because there are now so many tools and layers of abstraction available that make coding a much more trivial practice than before."