“Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change.
Everything is changing all the time. Thoughts come and go. But who is thinking them?”
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Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind.
Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. 🤦♂️ 🧘♂️
This seemed like a suitable companion for the cold and dark drive to work this morning. “Dark and long…” 😉 🎵
“Zen is feeling life, not something about life.”
— Alan Watts
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Experience without language. Wordless being. 🧘♂️
Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is. 🧘♂️
Can’t believe it’s a year since I last watched Luke Littler in the final of the PDC World Championship. Can he win it this time…?
Such a lot has happened in the past 12 months. I’m sitting in a different house for a start!
“Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.”
— David Shields
“Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable.”
“Remembering his country, he imagined it.”
— David Shields