1/10/13
7/28/12
In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind
“I was losing at baseball and I was about to throw a bat,” Alex Menton, 11, reported to his classmates the next day. “The mindfulness really helped.”
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7/24/12
6/4/12
Future Work Skills 2020
This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work and identifies key work skills needed in the next 10 years.
This report looks at future work skills—proficiencies and abilities required across different jobs and work settings.
The end of the report identifies the following as key competencies in 2020:
- Novel and Adaptive Thinking
- Social Intelligence
- Sense-Making
- New Media Literacy
- Trans-disciplinarity
- Design Mindset
- Cross Cultural Competency
- Virtual Collaboration
- Cognitive Load Management
- Computational Thinking
Institute for the Future for
the University of Phoenix, Research Institute
5/25/12
That's life
"We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self-contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience. Doing this is setting ourselves up for failure, because sooner or later, we’re going to have an experience we can’t control: our house is going to burn down, someone we love is going to die, we’re going to find out we have cancer, a brick is going to fall out of the sky and hit us on the head …
The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100% healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience. There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections into a nice smooth ride.
To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that’s life.”
- Pema Chodron, “When Things Fall Apart”, pp. 71-72
The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100% healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it involves rejecting a lot of your basic experience. There is something aggressive about that approach to life, trying to flatten out all the rough spots and imperfections into a nice smooth ride.
To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. From the awakened point of view, that’s life.”
- Pema Chodron, “When Things Fall Apart”, pp. 71-72
5/21/12
4/28/12
4/27/12
Be Water
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.”
-Bruce Lee
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.”
-Bruce Lee
4/15/12
An Absolute Highlight - Wisdom 2.0 2012 Snapshot
I'm in the front row during the time-lapse starting at :25 next to my friends Michael Van Riper of Google and Anna Frizzy of Happiness.org
4/11/12
Marc Gafni on the possibility and necessity of a World Spirituality
Excerpt from the blog "Spirit's Next Move"
For the first time in the history of planet Earth, in the history of consciousness, a World Spirituality is utterly possible and utterly necessary. A World Spirituality is one that trance-ends. It ends the trance of any particular religion or nationality. It weaves together the best medicines of every great system of knowing into a larger whole.
The most urgent need we have today is to participate in the gathering of all of us who want to participate in this great evolutionary unfolding. It’s already happening all over the world.
4/9/12
The Next Buddha
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| (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
a community practicing understanding and loving kindness,
a community practicing mindful living.
This may be the most important thing we can do
for the survival of the earth.”
~ ThÃch Nhat Hanh
4/2/12
Presence
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| Thich Nhat Hanh (Photo credit: Leonard John Matthews) |
Yesterday Thich Nhat Hanh gave a 73 minute talk introduced as:
We focus our attention on our breath. One in-breath is enough to bring enlightenment. The teaching is from the Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing – we look at the first eight exercises.
I think there's something to this breath thing...
3/29/12
Hitchcock's Definition of Happiness
"A clear horizon — nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive… I can’t bear quarreling, I can’t bear feelings between people — I think hatred is wasted energy, and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive — a sharp word, said by say a person, who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions, but when all these are removed and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something — I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be”.
3/27/12
3/26/12
The Barbarism of the Health-Care Repeal Crusade
Excerpt from The Barbarism of the Health-Care Repeal Crusade
By Jonathan Chait
The two parties are fighting over whether access to regular medical care ought to be a right or an earned privilege.
To me, and essentially everybody on the liberal side, the answer to that question is obvious. I’m comfortable with the market creating vastly unequal rewards of many kinds. But to make health insurance an earned privilege is to condemn people to physical suffering or even death because they failed to secure a job that gives them health insurance, or they don’t earn enough, or they happened to contract an expensive illness, or a member of their family did.
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The two parties are fighting over whether access to regular medical care ought to be a right or an earned privilege.
To me, and essentially everybody on the liberal side, the answer to that question is obvious. I’m comfortable with the market creating vastly unequal rewards of many kinds. But to make health insurance an earned privilege is to condemn people to physical suffering or even death because they failed to secure a job that gives them health insurance, or they don’t earn enough, or they happened to contract an expensive illness, or a member of their family did.
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