Archive for 2023-01

Summary and highlights

• Quiet a quiet month.
• Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger was great, but sometimes difficult to read.
• Wrote lots of notes under human and Buddhism categories.
• Made a short note-to-self: Change your tone from critic to coach.
• Hadn’t started Collections or Longer form Thinking pages yet.
• Sketching people and riffs on the Taijitu.

Thinking

Collections

Longer form

Posts

1. It can be about understanding, not agreeing, or even having common ground. In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 07-01-2023.
2. Admit ignorance, give power. In 💖 Brave, 👤 Human. Added 07-01-2023.
3. Ask "How did we get here?" In 💖 Brave, 👤 Human. Added 07-01-2023.
4. Be patient in understanding the complexity of a predicament. Don't rush to a solution. In 🐌 Slowness. Added 07-01-2023.
5. Ask questions about, and focus on, what connects not what divides. In 👤 Human. Added 07-01-2023.
6. Make the most generous assumption, choose the most respectful interpretation. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 07-01-2023.
7. Not perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning actions with values. In 🧘 Mindfulness, 🏛️ Stoicism. Added 07-01-2023.
8. Open your mind, don't try and change theirs. In 👤 Human. Added 07-01-2023.
9. See the balanced view of yourself: your patterns and human imperfections; your basic innate goodness. In ☸️ Buddhism, 👤 Human, 🙋 Self. Added 07-01-2023.
10. The three conversations: what happened; feelings; identity In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 07-01-2023.
11. Three realms of disagreement: what is true, what is meaningful, what is useful? In 👤 Human. Added 07-01-2023.
12. We all want to be heard, understood. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love. Added 07-01-2023.
13. Your understanding is flawed. Seek to improve it. Adopt a learning stance, be tentative. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 07-01-2023.
14. Art is useless, by definition. If it was useful, it'd be a tool. In . Added 09-01-2023.
15. Change your tone from critic to coach. In 👤 Human, ❤️ Love, 💪 Resilience. Added 09-01-2023.
16. Have wise ignorance. Stop frantically conceptualising. In ☯️ Daoism, 📍 Experience, 🐌 Slowness. Added 09-01-2023.
17. Suffering comes from aversion. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience. Added 09-01-2023.
18. The self is a stream of dependently arising processes interacting. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🙋 Self, ⏰ Waking-up. Added 09-01-2023.
19. Trust and desire for control are inversely correlated. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 💪 Resilience. Added 09-01-2023.
20. We grow by doing what excites and scares us. In 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 09-01-2023.
21. When getting there is the goal, the journey becomes a chore. In ☯️ Daoism. Added 09-01-2023.
22. Awakening is an ongoing process, a ripening, cultivation. In ☸️ Buddhism, 🧘 Mindfulness, 🌊 Motion. Added 15-01-2023.
23. Experiental reality is much deeper, richer, than what can be named. In ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 15-01-2023.
24. Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 🐌 Slowness. Added 15-01-2023.
25. Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity. In 🙆 Acceptance, ☸️ Buddhism, 📍 Experience. Added 15-01-2023.
26. Almost every experience in life can be categorised as a good time or a good story. In 📍 Experience, 👤 Human, 💪 Resilience. Added 19-01-2023.
27. Become somatically familiar with different states. In 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 22-01-2023.
28. Our negative expectations of others has a strong negative impact. In 👤 Human. Added 22-01-2023.
29. Treat people like trees: appreciate them the way they are. In 👤 Human, 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 22-01-2023.
30. Use departures from your authentic self as mindfulness alarms. In 🧘 Mindfulness. Added 22-01-2023.
31. How we show up in our daily life is probably the truest metric of the efficacy of our practice. In ☸️ Buddhism. Added 25-01-2023.

Noting

Book notes

1. The Three Marriages.
2. The Path of Aliveness.

Reading

1. The Passenger by McCarthy, Cormac. Read 24-01-2023, rated 5/5.
2. World Words by Cudby, Kevin. Read 21-01-2023, rated 4/5.
3. The Three Marriages by Whyte, David. Read 01-01-2023, rated 2/5. My noteson The Three Marriages.
4. Findings by Jamie, Kathleen. Read 13-01-2023, rated 5/5.
5. The Path of Aliveness by Dillo, Christian. Read 07-01-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson The Path of Aliveness.
6. Further Fables for Our Time by Thurber, James. Read 06-01-2023, rated 4/5.
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Zevin, Gabrielle. Read 05-01-2023, rated 5/5.
8. Illuminations by Kingfisher, T.. Read 01-01-2023, rated 4/5.

Arting

2023 01 Sketches

• 2023-01-02 lil people
• 2023-01-03 lil people
• 2023-01-06 portraits
• 2023-01-06 war
• 2023-01-08 waterfront peoples

2023 01 B Dub

• 2023-01-01 shells
• 2023-01-01 taijitu

Gaming

1. Immortals Fenyx Rising on PS5. Rated 4/5.
2. Yakuza Zero on PS5. Rated 4/5.
3. Yakuza: Like a Dragon on PS5. Rated 5/5.

Musicing

Nothing this month.