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 #tds232
Posts By: Mariana
#tds231 Life is not personal
“Mind — in its tiniest form — is what comes between us and the world around us. And mind, many have said — since the Stoics and before — is what projects our imperfect longings and understanding onto reality. It’s not events that undo us, it’s what we make of them.” Pico Iyer Listen… Read more »
#tds230 A go slow
Take one thing you do and slow it right down today. Attend to what is happening around you and within you during your chosen slow down activity. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds230
#tds229 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 »
#tds228 How to be polite
“Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly polite, aren’t you? And I always thrill…. Read more »
#tds227 Noticing quiet paths
Walk your way to a path of stillness today, take a photo. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds227
#tds226 photograph a colour
Pick a colour for the day. Notice it anywhere you go. Take photos. Pick the best one to show us. Did you notice that setting an intention to notice something, helped you pay attention and be more aware of your surroundings? After a lot of reading the last few days we felt it was time for… Read more »
#tds225 The Network Effect
Here is something we wish we had created! From the about page: “Network Effect explores the psychological effect of Internet use on humanity. Like the Internet itself, the project is effectively endless, containing 10,000 video clips, 10,000 spoken sentences, news, tweets, charts, graphs, lists, and millions of individual data points, all presented in a… Read more »
#tds224 The WIFI detox: colonic irrigation for the mind
Gaby Hinsliff in a recent article titled: How living offline became the new status symbol described the Wi-Fi detox as ‘a bit like colonic irrigation for the mind, flushing out all the unnecessary gunge’. The article is both funny and thoughtful, worth a quiet cup of tea and a read. She concludes: “But power isn’t the… Read more »
#tds223 ‘Meditation not better than any other kind of therapy’
‘The meta-study found only moderate evidence for the alleviation of anxiety, depression, and pain, and low to insufficient evidence to suggest that meditation relieved stress, improved mood, attention, or mental-health-related quality of life, or had a substantial impact on substance use, eating habits, sleep, or weight. It looks like the scientific evidence for the benefits… Read more »
#tds222 To Buddhify or not to Buddihify?
“To the extent that mindfulness apps embrace the Buddha’s aims—to end suffering by reducing attachment to the ego—they’re part of a wider apparatus of the quantified no-self. The ethical experience they sell is not only a reworking of the self’s relation to the self; it’s a reworking of technology’s relation to technology. They’re digital devices… Read more »
#tds221 The useless agony of going offline
“At the end of the experiment, I wasn’t dying to get my phone back or to access Facebook. I just wanted to get back to being better informed. My devices and the Internet, as much as they are sometimes annoying and frustrating and overflowing with knuckleheads, help me to do that. If getting outside and… Read more »
