Tag: meditation
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Time Greed and the benefits of slowing down
I just came back to work from a three-month sabbatical, and I wanted to capture some of the things I learned during that time. Part of my sabbatical was a meditation retreat where an important theme was paying attention to the forces of Greed and Aversion in our minds. Over the course of the retreat…
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Giving more time to each thing
Lately a lot of my dharma practice has been revealing restlessness. Even when I think I’m being calm and slow and contemplative, I still am giving more thought to my Instagram-mind, or my what-do-I-need-to-do-next mind. Most of all I’ve noticed that my inclination toward efficiency in all things leads me to always be doing more…
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Thoughts on Privilege
Today in my Sangha we explored the concept of Engaged Buddhism, particularly as it applies to race, gender, and class. We explored the most insidious aspect of privilege in our society: that those with privilege do not see it; we are blind to it. White people do not consider race to be a primary factor…
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Power and Love
Here’s a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. that I learned today and I really feel compelled to share: Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that…
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Micro-meditations
Recently at the Automattic Grand Meetup I led a short guided meditation and spoke a bit about incorporating micro-meditations into the life of someone who works with computers. That talk was inspired both by my own experiences with Vipassana (both in Cambridge and Burlington) as well as this fantastic talk by Nick Cox (aka: @everydaytype) at…
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