Every Day Zen
Whether it is voice recognition, dictation, or Siri, predictive text is not given to the poetic in us. Rather, artificial intelligence assigns labels, predicts patterns. But humans always break the mold, no matter how predictable we appear to be. We fight for words, stretching sentence structure for all it’s worth. Fragments rearrange and clauses connect until... Continue Reading →
This week’s #LongerView, “The Peace in Thinking Bigger,” is a riverside chat, the kind we have with ourselves when we have been off on a tangent, a real meander, only to find ourselves exactly where we started. Never for naught. No experience is wasted, not a one. It’s how we learn to think bigger. Oh,... Continue Reading →
“She believes this chair has feelings.” A friend delighted in introducing me this way, as she offered an empty chair as a place to sit. She never mentioned Edgar Allan Poe or the character, Roderick, in “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Saying I believed in “the sentience of things” would not have had... Continue Reading →
Zen keeps me from anticipating a situation that feels similar to one I’ve met before. One is past and one is now. No amount of anticipation will make one the other. It’s exhausting, expectation. It is like telling my head to drive and telling my heart to sit in the backseat. And be quiet. I’ll let you... Continue Reading →
We don’t say, “Hell is bad and heaven is good” or “Get rid of hell and just seek heaven,” but we encourage ourselves to develop an open heart and an open mind to heaven, to hell, to everything. Why? Because only then can we realize that no matter what comes along, we’re always standing at... Continue Reading →
You should try to…make an understanding with yourself that you are not your body, you are something bigger. That is your work on this earth, do you see? Every experience here is to teach you to do that. Living, dying, every experience. (Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha, P. 275) We are wondrous world builders, ever vigilant... Continue Reading →
Aim For Even: The Daily Dose 