Posts Tagged with "experience"
This Is Why Your Theories Are Useless
I have this theory that theories are utterly useless. Although they attempt to describe and predict a facet of reality, they never succeed. And because you can’t experience reality when you’re hiding behind your theories, they are effectively cutting off your connection with this reality. Sure, theories are nice to try and explain things or [...]
Continue reading...Zen and The Art of Soap Operas
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
What does coffee taste like? How does the sun feel on your skin? What’s it like to ride a motorcycle? There are whole libraries written about these and other experiences trying to tell you what things are actually like without you have to experience them. Thousands or even millions of bloggers trying to tell you [...]
Continue reading...Note to Self: Stop Trying to Save Ostriches
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Writing a blog and better the world, provide you with great content that is going to leave a mark and changes lives. Just some of those ideals that bloggers strive for. Making a difference you know. I’ve tried to help others with issues I though I had an answer to. Tried and failed I admit. [...]
Continue reading...You’re No Good if you don’t Know (!/?)
Monday, February 15, 2010
A strange word; knowing. Both in English and in Dutch (my native tongue) there is no word for the opposite of knowing. We just make due with something like “not-knowing,” immediately identifying it as in inferior to knowledge. It’s a simple fact of the Western world, we highly regard people with knowledge. So you’re constantly [...]
Continue reading...There is Zen in Stuffed Nightingales
Thursday, August 6, 2009
I’m currently reading Alan Watts’ The way of zen and in the preface I came across a very nice idea on the difference between zen and western thinking: I can not represent myself as a scientifically objective academician, for – with respect to Zen – this seems like studying birdsong in a collection of stuffed [...]
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- Christiaan: Uhm, nope :) But I thought it would be nice. However, I no longer bring a meditation mat and just use whatever I can find. The most important attribu...
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- Jeff Sharpless: In many ways the virtual reality has been alive and well since our minds reached a state of consciousnesses. Much of the time since inception human be...
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
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