One of my reads from last year, this ponders on zen and motorcycle maintenance over the course of the protagonist‘s #Journey across America by motorbike with his son.
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1. Successful holiday all around
2. Both kids under our roof for a sleepover
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4. Kevin slow blinking
5. Leo
pickI‘m probably more on the “self-absorbed ranting” side of the above quote, and philosophy is not my thing at all, but as the wife of a MechEng who maintains all his own vehicles, I found much of interest in this book.
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bailedHonestly, so excited to be done with this
I have read Alan Watts before many years ago and really enjoyed it but this wow ... it took so much out of me
The last chapter was nice and maybe a total of 10 pages were actually worth reading, one change that has come from this is that I feel I could go to church and just allow what happens to happen and I feel like I have more awareness/mindfulness in sound and moving at ease
I feel free yippee
pickI will read anything Thich Nhat Hanh writes. I‘m not Buddhist, but he is a wonderful teacher. His words are ever a balm in a world where there is so much pain. This book is about our relationship with the living worlds around us, and how to get that connection back in order to heal ourselves and the other beings around us.
The best way to overcome [the fear of death]—so it seems to me— is to make your interest gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river— small at first, nearly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks ⬇️
Marcus Aurelius was among those who offered another way to come to grips with a prospective of nonbeing: the period after death, he pointed out, is like the period before birth. You didn‘t spend the billions of years before you were born in a state of anxiety and apprehension, because there was no “you” to be aware of anything. Looking back now, it doesn‘t seem frightening that there was once a time when you were not conscious. Why then ⬇️
If death marks a permanent end of your consciousness, then from your point of view when you die, the entire future of the universe (running into tens of billions of years or more) must telescope down not just into a night, as Socrates described, but into a fleeting instant. Even if the universe were to go through other cycles of expansion and contraction, then all of these cycles as far as you are concerned would happen in zero time. What ⬇️
pickA slim book but I read it slowly over days trying to fully appreciate his thoughts.
It also made me restart my meditation / breathwork practice. Hoping that it sticks. 🙏
"Books contain dead teaching."
"Worship requires that there be something which is bigger, higher, or beyond ourselves."
"The whole world is you."
"This whole practice requires faith."
"What you do with your mind also creates karma."
"It's real chanting that makes no sound and in really listening to it, there is no hearing."
"What you do and what happens to you are the same thing."
"He handles that cabbage leaf as if it were his child."
