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Wabi-Sabi Zen is the place where objects tell their stories. *Wabi* refers to the inner life, a spiritual path or narrative, in other words, *the story. Sabi* refers to material things, the objects. *Zen* refers to the practice of attention — to the mind that notices.
Christopher Alexander: Generating a Living World
Bonnitta Roy
Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced in the brain and by the brain. There is no doubt that there exists vast clinical and experimental evidence showing significant interconnections and correlations between the anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry of the brain, on the one hand, and states of consciousness, on the other. However, it represents a major logical jump to infer from the available data that these correlations represent a proof that the brain is actually the source of consciousness. Such a deduction would be tantamount to the conclusion that the TV program is generated in the TV set, because there is a close correlation between functioning or malfunctioning of its components and the quality of the sound and picture.
Holotropic Breathwork
Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof
95. Cerebral types (that’s most of us on twitter, isn’t it?) tend to underestimate the effects of physical reality.
Going to a new place (a different café, for eg) can be helpful in breaking out of recursive thought patterns. Novel environment, novel stimuli, novel response!
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