Posts Tagged with "zen"
On Authenticity, what are your claims?
I don’t know where I’ve read it exactly (might have been Seth’s purple cow but I’m not sure) but on the Internet if people perceive you to be an expert in something, you are an expert. Somehow I find this very dangerous, I’ve been blogging on several topics over the past months and already I [...]
Continue reading...9 Books that changed my Life
Monday, June 15, 2009
I haven’t always been a lifestyle designer with a zen twist, it had to start somewhere and I can blame it all on a book that probably everyone who is into lifestyle design knows by now. The four hour workweek by Tim Ferris. This book opened my eyes to the possibilities of Internet and changed [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part one: Negative visualization
Monday, June 1, 2009
This blogpost is part one of a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life and is based on William Irvine’s A guide to the good life. Some of you might have already heard of the stoics or perhaps even read some of the [...]
Continue reading...Micro habits, the little things we do every day
Monday, May 25, 2009
As you sit reading this blogpost, close your eyes for a second and feel your body. The way you are sitting now, is probably the way you always sit. Maybe hanging to one side a bit more, maybe rotating your spine in some way. Are you sitting symmetrical? The way we sit is just one [...]
Continue reading...What all the “Get Rich” Blogs don’t tell you but what you should know
Monday, May 18, 2009
You there, sitting at your screen, looking at this text. What the hell are you doing, staring at a screen and reading this text. As if the act of reading by itself will change your life. All those self help, personal growth and success instantly blogs are lying to you. Zen habits? Useless! Blogmastermind? Don’t [...]
Continue reading...Zen and the art of blogging
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
This blog has been running now for about six weeks and it’s time for me to tell you why I chose to blog, what I want from it and what’s in it for you. It’s a bit of a lengthy post, but I want to let you know who I am and what I’m aiming [...]
Continue reading...Meditation, what are your thoughts?
Monday, April 20, 2009
About a year ago I started out with zazen, a type of sitting meditation to get my mind back under control. My mind was all over the place most of the time and I couldn’t focus on anything much longer than a kid with ADD on a sugar high. I was constantly drifting away in [...]
Continue reading...On attention
Sunday, March 22, 2009
And again, when looking around I got a new idea for a blogpost. Inspiration is everywhere. I want to write a bit on attention. Or rather, the Japanese character of “Nen”. Which translates to “wish, sense, idea, thought, feeling, desire, attention”. The last time I talked with m Zen teacher he talked about this character [...]
Continue reading...Exploring beginner’s mind
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Phrase Beginner’s mind is a phrase coined by Shunryu Suzuki or as most call him Suzuki-Roshi, a Zen master who ran a Zen temple in San Francisco in the 1960′s among other things. But what exactly is beginner’s mind? I wrote about this in my first post on this blog but I want to explore [...]
Continue reading...Before you read this, get a cup of coffee.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Got that coffee? Great, and welcome to my new blog! On this blog I’m going to investigate what it takes to begin, where to start, anything and everything on starting anything and everything. Finding new ways to do things. There are allot of things I haven’t done yet, that I really would like to do. [...]
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