A game to reflect on the difference between quantity and quality! Enjoy. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds3037
Posts By: Mariana
#tds3036 Enchanted looking practice
“Looking may be called enchanted when the act of attention draws a circle around itself from which everything but the object is excluded, when intensity of regard blocks out all circumambient images, stills all murmuring voices.” Stephen Greenblatt Today you get to find a few things to practice your circle of enchanted looking. After just… Read more »
#tds3035 Alone with your thoughts or an electric shock?
“These findings are surprising. It’s hard to believe that ordinary people chose to distract themselves with electric shocks that they had just claimed they would pay to avoid. Yet there are understandable reasons for not wanting to be alone with one’s thoughts.” Ruth Baer Read the article twice, away from all notifications. Take time to… Read more »
#tds3034 It is okay to miss things!
Online life is always on the move. This can create a feeling of unrest as we always have the feeling that we are missing something. Today we decide it’s okay to miss things! Try it for as long a you can, a minimum of 15 minutes. Start to train yourself to get used to the… Read more »
#tds3033 Finding stillness in a tech-obsessed world
The solution, she discovered, was what we’re calling a “digital detox,” a sort of juice-cleanse for the mind (minus the cayenne-lemonade). Mindhacking We believe the idea of digital detox has limitations. It is more like a band-aid than an upstream solution to a lack of balance in life. Yet, it may be a place to… Read more »
#tds3032 Autumn leaves and impermanence
A beautiful paragraph from the original Bambi story. Two leaves talk at the end of their lives. Take your self to a quiet spot for 30 minutes and slow read this dialogue. Are you able to stay with the inevitability of change and endings just for 30 minutes today? How does connecting with endings… Read more »
#tds3031 Can you hear the whispers of the gods?
“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Take time to read ‘Finding Stillness’ by Leo Babauta choose one or two of his suggestion to try out today. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds3031
#tds3030 It is not about the nail…
Today, we practice some interpersonal attention. Watch the short film, laugh and then pay attention to how often when someone needs you to listen you just want to talk ‘about the nail’. “Don’t try to fix it. I just need you to listen.” Everyone has heard these words. And they are the law of the… Read more »
#tds3029 The sun rises in the evening
Today, Zen koans we heard from Marion Woodman first. They can be used as a way to focus the mind away from chatter. Or as Albert Low remind us: To see into the koan we must see into ourselves and, from Ikkyu, we know that only one koan matters – you. Pick one of the 3 koans… Read more »
#tds3028 The crime of Jay walking
Once upon a time somebody suggested that cars should slow down to enable pedestrians to use the roads. “As deaths mounted, anti-car activists sought to slow them down. In 1920, Illustrated World wrote, “Every car should be equipped with a device that would hold the speed down to whatever number of miles stipulated for the… Read more »
#tds3027 Learning to intertwine loss, decency and beauty
On Being is a treasure trove of still moments and insight. Let’s listen to another podcast today? “Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of human experience when lives alter unexpectedly — where loss, disaster,… Read more »
#tds3026 A good day
A respected Benedictine monk walks us through a gratefulness meditation (this link goes to video, audio file below) today. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds3026
