Today we take time to reflect on the limitations of evaluation. The process of nature is so much more complex than that. It’s complicated. Watch Alan Watts speak to this in the Parable of the Chinese Farmer. We think it is worth two minutes of your day. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds650 Alexa’s challenge: Unlock your inner Amish!
Bringing a voice to some of the challenges to technology with a view to developing intentional technology. She explores how and offers examples. The 15 minute video ends with the challenge of the title: Unlock your own inner Amish, how might we develop a relationship with technology that preserves the buttermilk in our lives. Tweet… Read more »
#tds649 The upside of technology?
Nick Bilton has written a poignant piece about the complexities of making choices in our use of technology. He explores using social media as a way to remember those we have lost, some of the downsides reported in the news and the personal choices we can make. So often we look at the dangers of… Read more »
#tds648 Idle pleasures: slouching
“Ninety-five per cent of communication is non-verbal and your body has a language all of its own. ‘Stop slouching!’ cried your mother and your teacher, but slouching is the posture of calm rebellion. It’s a leisurely two fingers up to the productive classes. It has its downsides though, and it cited as a cause of… Read more »
#tds647 Taste Meditation
Today an practice that does not require you to put time aside for finding a still point. Enjoy and be grateful! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds647
#tds646 Lack of importance or consequence
A quote from Milan Kundera’s new book ‘The Festival of Insignificance’. It has been liked by some and hated by others but the quote above speaks to the idea that life is not personal and that nobody has any special dispensation from it even if our egos like to be centre stage. Today take time to… Read more »
#tds645 Practice dynamic stillness…
“This dynamic stillness is what Dipa Ma calls the crowning stage of Buddhist training, “where consciousness becomes a symphony of loving-kindness, playing in a silent ocean of equanimity. We have now come full circle, arriving where we started as T.S. Eliot write, “knowing the place for the first time.” Coming to rest in the present, wherever… Read more »
#tds644 Your daily impermanence
Become aware of and collect experiences in daily life that remind you of the impermanence of this life, of emotions, of things… Sometimes it is the times when we think something will last forever that we can most benefit from showing to ourselves that this is just an illusion. Can you name 1 thing that lasts… Read more »
#tds643 Poetry and impermanence
Notegraphy Do a close reading of this poem over a cup of tea and a 30 minute break (or even a whole hour) to remind yourself about the impermanent nature of life. Share an insight about stillness in your day as a result of doing this. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to… Read more »
#tds642 Bored with your own company? You may be in danger…
Our friends at Open Culture featured this lovely short clip about solitude, and how young people need to find ways to maintain or relearn the ability to be alone for well being. Who is Andrei Tarkovsky? “The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied… Read more »
#tds641 Read at Whim
‘He considers pleasure an essential element of reading, and believes we will find more of it if we “Read at Whim.” Note the capital “W.” “In its lower-case version,” he explains, “whim is thoughtless, directionless preference that almost invariably leads to boredom or frustration or both. But Whim is something very different: it can guide us… Read more »
#tds640 Is your speed reading just speed page turning?
An article that starts with such an amazing animated gif has to be worth reading, we say. Excellent review of the limitations of speed reading with advice for taking time to read for understanding instead. TL;DR “But, I would argue, the take-home lesson from efforts to increase our reading speed is to question whether speed-reading… Read more »
