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Advice while Awake
When the occasion requires, speak mindfully. Be timely, not untimely. Be decisive, not confused. Be gentle, not harsh. Be generous, not miserly. Be compassionate, not cruel. Oh beloved friend, mindful of internal & external feelings, comprehend how few occasions ever require that a word even be spoken. Thus the Great…
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A wonderful question which by the asking can open you up to improvisation both by and within the Encompassing. Namaste. Related articles Time to Improvise (keithwaynebrown.com) No Room for Improvements (keithwaynebrown.com) Bhikkhu Goldstein (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) Mindful Presence: Embodying kindness and the listening heart (ucsdcfm.wordpress.com) The Mindful Heart (6seconds.org)…
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THIS is – this IS – THIS IS
morning satori authentic letting-go? walking along, listening to Alan Watts THIS clicks into place thoughts weaken, fall away after a last tugging illusion a hesitation then/there – NO! now/here YES! Squirrel running along wall chittering & skittering THIS is this IS THIS IS walking – mindful of that stuff and…
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Walking Meditation 20130309
“Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere rather than our good companions alongside us in this present…
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Finding Beauty Beyond Clever Devices
“Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?” — Toru Takemitsu “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it’s not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there…
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Originally posted on The MOOC Experience: Social media and digital learning environments are now combined. As part of the MOOC experience, students are requested to join debates and course’s topics on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google +. The idea is to go beyond the regular e-learning platform,…
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Black Hole
I inhabit the void, the vacuous space between life and death. I often catch sight of tourists, standing on the rocky cliffs above, staring out over a shoreless sea of nothing,naked and shivering, hoping to find a god. There is no god here. But they don’t have to know that.…
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Originally posted on stuffgradslike: If your eyes jumped to the title of this post, then this is probably for you. The natural trajectory of most jobs for college grads (well, really all, in a sense) is that you will leave them! If you have a degree, it’s time to make a…
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The Bandwidth Divide – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions As more colleges rush to offer free online courses, it’s worth asking who might be left out for lack of high-speed Internet access to watch video lectures. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: I am organizing a meeting of North Texas adjuncts/instructors (academic contingent laborers) in…
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Bhikkhu Goldstein
Much respect for Joseph Goldstein. I have been listening to his dharma talks for over a month now, and they are quite helpful. Not only have the talks added to my knowledge of Buddhism, they have also enlightened my understanding of phenomenological techniques. I highly recommend going through a meditation…
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A nice run through of the precepts on the way to no-thinking. Namaste. Related articles Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing (keithwaynebrown.com) AI, or Awakened Intelligence (keithwaynebrown.com) Meaning of Namaste (andreadurham.wordpress.com) The Path to the Fearless (evolutionsangha.wordpress.com)
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Northern Lights
Originally posted on artschivista: On the outside of Washington DC’s Kennedy Center is a swirl of blue, green, and purple. The colors shift, and the movement is so slight that you have to stand there for a while to believe it is happening. But in an area of stale government…
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Inspiring Blogger Award
I started doing this blog to have an outlet for all of the things that pop into my head. It has proved a very rewarding endeavor, not the least because I keep running across folks that are doing some great art, thinking, reporting, etc. Thanks to all of your for…
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Originally posted on Julie Green Artist: This morning I walked outside to take some shots of the rainbow lorikeets in the trees, when one flew down and started dancing in front of the camera. Luckily, another mate landed on the balcony for it to impress instead of me. So here…
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The Tenth Dimension
So, there is a lot of mind blowing thinking out in the realm of contemporary physics. Those of us who know the history of philosophy are not afraid to call a good deal of this metaphysics. Certainly, it is the kind of contemplation that can only be approached–even using the…
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Time to Improvise
unfueled – uncompromisedundefined – unconditionedunbounded – unforeseenuncanny – unbornmindfulnessliberationnirvana I had a most wonderful & meandering mindwalk with my beloved Collin Hauser yesterday while hanging around Big Mike’s Cofffee Shop. We wandered wondering down this Platonic avenue and then through this Zen garden, into some Existential forest path and out…
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Originally posted on The Elusive Self: The human brain is an incredibly complex object. With billions of cells each with thousands of connections, it is difficult to know where to begin. Neuroscientists can probe the brain with electrodes, see inside it with scanners, and observe what happens to people when…
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Why Johnny Can’t Read or Win Wars
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Johnny isn’t able to think critically – and that’s the point of a corporate-business model of education. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Numbers are often neither definitive nor unequivocal, yet we continue to elevate them and profess our belief in them. The cautionary words of…
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