That feeling when you boil JUST the right amount of water to make one perfect cup of soothing tea. #IAmSoGoodAtTea pic.twitter.com/HXXwI76qYF — Fidget (@lilfidget) September 10, 2016 Today, take time to make the perfect cup of tea. Pause your day, enjoy it in stillness. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the… Read more »
Posts By: Mariana
#tds447 I went back to a dumb phone
Alan Jacobs writes for The Atlantic. We featured him yesterday on reading. He has now gone back to the old phone above because he did not want to ‘be his phone’ anymore! Well written and insightful, the article is worth a read: “I was my phone too, but didn’t want to be my phone any… Read more »
#tds446 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 »
#tds445 Only the essential
Today, filter your to-dos through this question framed by meditation teacher and author Gregory Kramer: “What is non-essential that can be released? What is essential and calls for my precious attention?” Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds445
#tds444 Festina Lente
Today, practice making haste slowly. How? Google obliges: “To do things the proper way instead of hurriedly and heedlessly; to see urgent things through in a thorough manner. ” Urban Dictionary Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds444
#tds443 In praise of grumpiness and humility
“Spirituality and humility have been divorced in the modern version of living a green juice, advanced posturing lifestyle. In Los Angeles some cling to their identity chanting to imaginary animals as fundamentally as the Bible belt clings to their invented taskmaster. That is: they take themselves very, very seriously. Behind all of this resides a… Read more »
#tds442 Interconnected memories
“No man is an island: we act together, think together and even remember together. Elderly couples have interconnected memory systems, working together to deftly remember their shared past. New research shows that platonic friends see themselves similarly. […] Memory interdependence was the single best predictor of friendship quality, more even than relationship length or a… Read more »
#tds441 Intentional Tech – content or location?
“Technology has changed the way we organise information so that we only remember details which are no longer available, and prioritise the location of information over the content itself. […] individuals develop a transactive memory with the internet and rely on it for information by focusing on where details are located rather than the details… Read more »
#tds440 Reflections on silence
“Silence does not seem to be a loss or lack of language; it does not even seem to be the opposite of language. I have found it to be a whole world in and of itself, alongside language and culture, but independent of it. It comes from a different place altogether.” Sarah Maitland A… Read more »
#tds439 Treat each thing as if it were alive
Even a computer can be used to focus our attention on the present moment. Gary Snyder is a Zen poet and shows us the beauty of a mindful relationship with our devices. Listen to @johnjohnston read the poem in a beautiful Scottish accent. Can you establish this kind of relationship with any of your devices,… Read more »
#tds438 Is it really so ludicrous to be a Luddite?
“The method of carefully and deliberately dismantling technologies, epistemological Luddism if you will, is one way of recovering the buried substance upon which our civilization rests. Once unearthed, that substance could again be scrutinized, criticized, and judged.” (Winner) Is epistemological Luddism a way into stillness in our fast paced lives? Take time to read, or… Read more »
#tds437 Passage meditation
Today pick a short passage or poem that speaks to your heart and memorise it. Easwaran’s book on passage meditation tells us: “Once you have memorized a passage, you are ready to go through it word by word, as slowly as you can. Why slowly? I think it is Meher Baba, a modern mystic of… Read more »
