Happy Today Because
Posted in {Naikan}, {Shared Journals} on August 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Archive for August, 2007
Ahh Tea…
Posted in {Shared Journals} on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Seeing/Drawing as Meditation
Posted in {Shared Journals}, {Sketches} on August 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation
Did You See the Lunar Eclipse?
Posted in {Point of Focus}, {Simplicity}, {Things That Made Me Smile} on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Stupid Bug
Posted in {Shared Journals} on August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Zencast Podcast
Posted in {Quick Tips} on August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If anyone is looking for something to listen to, I just discovered the Zencast Podcast — mostly Dharma Talks, updated weekly since May 2005.
In addition to the talks, there is a five-part Intro to Meditation Class (talks 9-13). I haven’t listened to it, but I imagine it would be useful for anyone interested in [...]
Can Simplicity Open the Door to Depression?
Posted in {Simplicity} on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A lot of people have been talking about simplicity lately (e.g. Get Satisfied, No Impact Man, Enough), and I admit I feel myself drawn to it — as an environmentalist, but also as a person whose mind is often cluttered with depression and whose life is cluttered with the trappings of western living.
I started simplifying [...]
Mastering the Elephant of Unconscious Thought
Posted in {Attention}, {Point of Focus}, {illustration} on August 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The other day on the Positive Psychology Blog, Dave Shearon discussed a metaphor which was new to me. He said:
Jon Haidt in The Happiness Hypothesis suggests the metaphor of a rider on an elephant for how we live life. The rider is our conscious thoughts (and emotions). The elephant is our [...]
Since I Haven’t Been Posting Much
Posted in {Sketches} on August 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I thought I’d share some of what I have been doing. Mostly, I’ve been working on illustrations for a children’s poem/story Ginger wrote. They’re approaching done, which is exciting.
Also, I finally got a scanner, which is thrilling (no more taking pictures of my pictures)! Hopefully this means I’ll be posting more illustrations [...]
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