Category: Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Borobudur Buddhist Temple
Great entry from the folks over at OOAworld Travel… The first steps to Borobudur, the great Buddhist temple outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia, are guided: a welcome sign informs visitors of the monks’ routine, inviting the neophyte to follow the traditional path they took up and into the temple, entering from the…
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Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy
Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm will describe how to upload ancient wisdom into modern technology. He will reveal the code for the antivirus to stress, show how to delete depression, and give Buddha-tech support to peace of mind. Synergizing Mindfulness with Kindness, we can transform the iPad into the UsPad and…
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Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten
Dean Paton: Tell me how somebody who was an organizational management specialist, and then a new-economy thought leader, made this leap into what is as much a spiritual proposition as it is a political one—that Earth is a living organism, that we all are essentially a part of this one…
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Deleuze for realz
“If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.” ― Gilles Deleuze “The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?” ― Gilles Deleuze “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!” ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia “A concept is a brick. It can…
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Some Thoughts on Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | Brain Pickings
Carl Sagan saw in books “proof that humans are capable of working magic.” The magic of humanity’s most enduring books — the great works of literature and philosophy — lies in the simple fact that they are full of hope for the human spirit. News has become the sorcerous counterpoint…
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A Laud at Sunrise
_/|\_ A Prayer on Awakening with the Sun Oh thou Encompassing, thou Good, thou All, thou One. We turn ours beings toward the Way, and we take up responsibility for our paths. Let us rejoice in the rest we took through this night: Our bodies and minds released from care. Let…
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adandamahlabomdibohma dadada
now – all is flowing water falling through holes in net catching nothing – here
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Outrospection
Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves.
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The Loving Struggle of 8-Bit Philosophy
Graphics have come a long way from the old days of Nintendo games like Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda. The graphic system itself still holds a kind of nostalgia. And the creative thinkers at Wisecrack are using that nostalgia to teach existential philosophy. By this…
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This Way
We are frustrated by how we confuse difference with complexity. Identify this now/here… The simple way! Among so many choices there are a few decisions but no single path when the Way is the Encompassing Itself. Live – Believe – Love Attentively Resolutely Mindfully Deliberately This WAY … Transcendence.
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2015 #love
Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion
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“Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of the American counterculture in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Wilson’s…
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Embracing the broad cosmos
We never know with any certainty where we are going. Only conviction carries us forward. And such conviction, if it would do better than we did yesterday, must arise from a courageous assessment of who we are by looking at what we have done, how we are doing, and that…
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The Journey to Mindfulness
To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order and the will-to-Transcendence. Call these respectively the innate desire for…
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Getting Started with Phenomenology
Someone on Quora asked, “What primary and secondary sources should I read if I want to better understand phenomenology and the phenomenological method?” I always steer folks wanting to learn about phenomenology in the direction of getting a good foundation in Edmund Husserl. If you have that, you can go on…
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