Today, spend time wondering in the inner space of musing – not work time, not think time, not practical time… Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds819
Posts By: Mariana
#tds818 Do we need to get ‘back to life’?
Digital Storytelling site Cowbird.com is closing down. This is not unusual in digital life, platforms come and go all the time. What is unusual here is the rationale for the choice to close the site as explained beautifully above by one of its founders Jonathan Harris. They could have redeveloped, they could have sold, they… Read more »
#tds817 What if you did not have to work for money?
Santens is 37 years old, and he’s a leader in the basic income movement—a worldwide network of thousands of advocates (26,000 on Reddit alone) who believe that governments should provide every citizen with a monthly stipend big enough to cover life’s basic necessities. The idea of a basic income has been around for decades, and… Read more »
#tds816 Is nothing something?
Thich Nhat Hanh answers children’s questions in one of his books titled ‘Is nothing something?’. Take a break and enjoy a review of the book and some of the lovely questions the kids ask. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds816
#tds815 Ask the moment
Richard Miller teaches a relaxation method known as Yoga Nidra. In one of his talks he speaks about the idea that there is a continuity of being rather than a separate self. Opening up to stillness can help us access a state of mind where nothing distracts us as we can be open to the… Read more »
#tds814 Questions that have no right to go away
“Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away.” David WhytePick a question to be still with today. Keep coming back here and choose a daily question for reflection. These are life changing… Read more »
#tds813 In defence of boredom
We have had Bored and Brilliant activities here on the Still Web before. They are wonderful and to the point, helping us to notice habit and create a little space to make new habits should we choose to do so. The host of this great show has written a book about it all. Listen to… Read more »
#tds812 Another 1 minute meditation
“I decided to do a one minute meditation today, and invite everyone else to try the same. Meditation is a daunting task and most people, myself included, always find excuses not to do it. But a one minute meditation anyone can do, anywhere, anytime. Just stand, or sit, or lie, or recline, or just be… Read more »
#tds811 Time for a moment?
Today we revisit the One Moment Meditation little guy. He has been updated and is now hooked on social media. But he takes a moment and retraces his steps… Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds811
#tds810 I intend to keep scrolling until…
I feel something. Humour (not so much) from McSweeney’s: “How could genuine human emotion penetrate such an opaque, suffocating shroud of free online content? There’s only one solution. Faster scrolling.” River Clegg via GIPHY Today, read the article but remember how to slow read. Read it slowly and take time for contemplation. It is funny… Read more »
#tds809 You Are Needed Where Your Heart Feels Most Broken
Go where your heart feels broken the most; amidst the pain in hunger and hate in crime. Wildlife is dying, emissions still flying, such sombre praise of how much we have grossed. The ice is melting, our souls are freezing, hearts of hope, now closed, stenosed. With all that we’ve done, unutterably asleep, there’s no longer… Read more »
#tds808 The practice of one thing at a time
So instead of having some object of worship, we just concentrate on the activity which we do in each moment. When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat. Susuki Roshi Pick one thing, just do that. Want a little more help? “When… Read more »
