Category: meditation
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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A right discipline: Daily practice
A right discipline is not a regime that one imposes upon oneself from without. A right discipline begins with lived experiences of what is best, of intimations of the elongation and prolongation of what is best. Taking the idea of prolongation seriously, a right discipline makes explicit to one how it is possible to maintain oneself in…
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A good human life flows according to nature
The following occurred to one conversation partner and me yesterday morning. After our philosophical conversation, I ate lunch, then went for a climb, only to be brought home by the early afternoon desert rain. * A good human life flows according to basic categories (or modes) of human experience: movement, rest, thinking, conversing, having sex,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 