Thinking

These are some ideas that make me stop and think. They change how I think about things and how I try to be in the world. They help me be a better person. For me that means being a better friend, partner, teacher, professional, creative.

See also: thinking writing from 2024; thinking writing from 2023; Thinking archive.

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Zen

• Empty (added 2025-01-01, updated 2025-01-11)

Zen notes

• Simply Zen: Interiors and Gardens (added 2025-01-16)
• Sitting with koans (added 2025-01-07, updated 2025-01-11)
• Notes from The Way app by Henry Shukman (added 2024-11-22, updated 2025-01-07)
• Zen Light: Unconventional Commentaries on the Denkoroku (added 2024-12-21, updated 2025-01-06)
• The Wholehearted Way (added 2024-12-28, updated 2025-01-06)
• The Heart Sutra: A Comprehensive Guide To The Classic Of Mahayana Buddhism (added 2024-12-15, updated 2025-01-06)
• Ten Fields of Zen, Field 8 – Realization: Direct Experience of Reality-with-a-Capital-R (added 2025-01-04, updated 2025-01-06)
• Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Opening Your Heart: Self-Acceptance and Non-Separation (added 2025-01-04, updated 2025-01-06)

Longer form

• Tworaits (Traits 2, the sequel to Traits) (added 2025-01-16, updated 2025-01-18)
• Traits (added 2024-12-15, updated 2025-01-06)
• How would you advise a friend? (added 2025-01-06)
• My burnout safeword is Potato (added 2022-12-17, updated 2025-01-03)
• Tension (added 2025-01-01, updated 2025-01-02)
• The three uhds (added 2024-07-04, updated 2025-01-01)

Notes from books, articles, talks

• The Art Of War (added 2025-01-17)
• Choose Freedom? (from "Right Now, Just As It Is") (added 2025-01-04)
• Notes from Joan Tollifson books and articles (added 2025-01-01)

Buddhism

OMB

• Ideas for OMB sessions (added 2024-10-03, updated 2025-01-18)

IFS-ish

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