CxD#205: 🤖💃+ 🙏

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Here’s one highlight of goodness one of our own posted for us as a way to begin to feel our way into the question of “what is consciousness and where does it begin and how do dancing robots make you feel?”

Do you Love Me? 👈 Link to CxD community post you really need to watch.

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This week, above all, we honor one of humanity’s brightest and most gentle but fierce lights:

Thich Nhat Hanh, the influential Zen master, died at 95 on Saturday in the Vietnamese city of Hue, at the temple where he lived. A prolific author, poet and teacher, he believed in what he called “engaged Buddhism,” applying Buddhist principles to social issues as well as to daily life. Here is a modest selection of his thoughts, drawn from books, speeches and published interviews.

On slowing down

“There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Most people cannot believe that just walking as if you have nowhere to go is enough.”

“The Buddha said, ‘My practice is the practice of nonpractice.’ That means a lot. Give up all struggle. Allow yourself to be, to rest.”

“People talk about entering nirvana, but we are already there. Aimlessness and nirvana are one.”

“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

Source

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2. Poignant and infuriating read about today’s media landscape. Funny and pissed off and from my perspective, increasingly true. Please read. It’s really good.

THE BULLSHIT