Posts Tagged with "zen"
A quick introduction to Meditation
Have you ever thought about meditation? There are many different ideas out there on what it is exactly and what it’s good for. I wouldn’t be a human being if I didn’t have an opinion on the topic myself. This blogpost gives you one of many views, but a view from someone with personal experience. [...]
Continue reading...Get Out Of Your Way or Killing Ego
Friday, April 29, 2011
While rereading one of my favorite books there was a line in there that I can’t get out of my mind: Thinking about yourself gets in the way of what you are trying to do – J.J. Gibbs I think it actually sums up all the issues I’m having. Issues with education, issues with blogging, [...]
Continue reading...Resisting Nature And Pushing Rocks
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Imagine a rather heavy rock, one you can’t lift completely but are able to shift and topple. How would you move it? I’m talking about the really heavy rocks here. You can’t just pick it up and have it behave exactly like you want. It has a mind of its own, if it actually would [...]
Continue reading...2010 Reflections, It’s Getting Serious
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The last blogpost this year, and we’re looking back at all the things that took place. First off are the things about mind the beginner as a blog. It’s been a bit more than a year now since this blog started on it’s own domain. And although it’s still a small blog when compared to [...]
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...One year (and 6 days) of Blogging, a reflection
Friday, March 19, 2010
Looking back On March 13th 2009 I made my very first blogpost ever, starting the blog on a wordpress hosted domain. Right off the bat I can tell you that that was a mistake. I should have started on my own domain from the beginning. My old domain is still getting more traffic every day [...]
Continue reading...Learning by Experience, it’s the way to go
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A blind man left his village and followed the winding path through the forest. He was on his way to see his friend in the neighboring hamlet. After his arrival, the two friends spent many happy hours together. At last, it was time for the blind man to return to his village. “Here,” his friend [...]
Continue reading...Value Rigidity, Empty Teacups and Unboxing the Brain
Monday, January 11, 2010
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “Like this [...]
Continue reading...The power of silence
Thursday, August 27, 2009
In a post a while back I started with the quote: Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know. Shunryu Suzuki, a Soto-zenpriest who lived in San fransisco in the 1960′s elaborated this one a bit further when his pupils were asking about this. You are all enlightened until you open [...]
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...
- Fred: Do you really need a meditation mat anywhere?...
- 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...
- Annie: Hey Christiaan! I agree with your views here. Bitcoins are a nice thought but I'm skeptical about how they are going to do because they take a bank...
- micheal: i agree with what you said about if success seems hopeless or remote keep practicing and all will come to you by seeing that you are still practicing....
- Lilianna Earnest: Very good blog article.Really thank you! Keep writing....
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
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