Month: August 2013

• August 17, 2013

  Coursing Meditations

  How to present a flowing day? ‘Coursing’: A philosophical life moving in pictures, in turning holding pictures. Look: http://is.gd/1tqROX  1 What is the beautiful course of a day? How does one follow nature’s course? A line, drawn by hand, drawing the day, is both extensive and intensive. Extensive: flowing through time without resistance. Intensive: expressing the…
• August 16, 2013

  Beginner’s fingers: A study in Ensō

  Beginner’s fingers / follow bristles lengthening / and thickening breaths.
• August 12, 2013

  A ‘fasting of the mind’: Some reflections on being in a hurry

  In The Inner Chapters, Confucius, in the role of a Daoist teacher, advises his pupil to undertake a ‘fast of the mind.’ Yesterday was spent fasting in silence. I recorded the following reflections neatly in my notebook. * 1. Hummingbirds make a sputtering sound like a boy’s radio-controlled airplane. The wind crinkles in the early morning.…
• August 9, 2013

  Lunga School, ‘an ambitious offspring of the festival’

  My friend Jonatan Spejlborg Jensen, a graduate of Kaos Pilots in Denmark, and his colleague Björt Sigfinnsdóttir have launched Lunga School. Lunga School, whose first incarnation will be 4-month-long semester of art and self-cultivation workshops starting this spring, is ‘the first of its type in Iceland.’ To learn more about the school, you can read…
• August 7, 2013

  The Freelancer’s Dilemma: To hustle or to apologize?

  Overview Chapter 1, ‘The Freelancer’s Dilemma,’ is an excerpt from Manners and Mores: A Tutorial for Freelancers Tired of Hustling and Prone to Apologizing. The Table of Contents is included below the excerpt. How to Order a Copy of Manners and Mores I live and work in a gift economy. To determine how much you would be…