Archive for 2023-11
Summary and highlights
- Thinking about conflict a lot, and Daoist approaches to it.
- Lots on Buddhism.
- Zen and Daoist reading a bit.
Thinking
Collections
- Inaction and Underneathness (added 2023-11-13)
Longer form
- Compassion and conflict (added 2023-11-18, updated 2023-11-21)
- Mindfulness for exhausted people (added 2023-11-18, updated 2023-11-19)
- Vowlued action: Valued action / vow remix (added 2023-11-18)
Posts
- Rest is not for being able to be more productive.
- Your self is an individual expression of many collectives.
- The mind interprets every experience almost instantly.
- Thoughts arise without your permission.
- We tend to think problems, complications, are anomalies.
- Don't adopt the stupidity of not investigating.
- Don't take it so seriously: be more playful.
- Grasping and aversion both reinforce things.
- Look more closely and resist the urge to summarise.
- Reality exists in essentially infinite resolution.
- Reality has a profound adaptability, flux, mutability.
- "The Tao is like muddy water" is a precise description of things as they are.
- Your identity is a narrow slice of your potential.
- Attend to the dynamic nature of emergent life.
- Naked awareness: thoughts and the mind are like clothes and the body.
- Notice the freshness of unfolding reality.
- Solitary confinement is (the sense of self is) a prison.
- Big changes happen through sufficient suffering or inspiration.
- Collaborate with the shape of the world.
- Craving something makes it feel farther away.
- For the Sage, cravings happen in slow motion.
- Inspiration without action is not useful.
- Life can't be other than it is.
- Life is defined by growth and transformation, aliveness.
- Like holding water in your hands: gently, lightly.
- No part of a person is unchanging, permanent.
- Recognise when you're on the Hedonic Treadmill.
- Recognise your self as overlapping, malleable, stories.
- Respond to discomfort from a place of stillness.
- See more clearly that things are (actually) fuzzy.
- Seek action with softness, ease, suppleness.
- The world doesn't happen to you, it happens through you.
- This is the way things are right now.
- Turn towards feelings, especially uncomfortable ones.
Noting
Book notes
Reading
- So Many Books by Zaid, Gabriel. Read 23-11-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson So Many Books.
- System Collapse by Wells, Martha. Read 22-11-2023, rated 4/5.
- Zen: Direct Pointing to Reality by Bancroft, Anne. Read 17-11-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson Zen: Direct Pointing to Reality.
- The Vow-Powered Life by Bays, Jan Chozen. Read 16-11-2023, rated 4/5. My noteson The Vow-Powered Life.
- Δria by Hinerangi, Jessica. Read 08-11-2023, rated 4/5.
- Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Hanh, Thich Nhat. Read 08-11-2023, rated 5/5.
- The Tao of Physics by Capra, Fritjof. Read 03-11-2023, rated 5/5. My noteson The Tao of Physics.
- Deleted Scenes for Lovers by Slaughter, Tracey. Read 03-11-2023, rated 4/5.
- Total by Miller, Rebecca. Read 02-11-2025, rated 4/5.
Arting
2023 11 Sketches
Gaming
- Resident Evil 4 Remake on PS5. Rated 5/5.
Musicing
Nothing this month.