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"'I wrote down everything that happened at Twitter, and we corrected all the mistakes,' [Dorsey] says." This is kind of Zen. I saw this as an example of motiva
by snitzr 14y ago
"'I wrote down everything that happened at Twitter, and we corrected all the mistakes,' [Dorsey] says."
This is kind of Zen. I saw this as an example of motivated and deliberate learning. I find that taking notes instead of winging it can lower the chance of making the same mistake twice. You miss and forget more than you realize. To put it another way, you forget what you remember and don't even remember you forgot.
- AkThhhpppt 14y agoIt's sensible, but how is it Zen? In what way does it partake of the Buddha nature? :-)
- theorique 14y agoPop-zen is minimalist, like an iPad or a near-empty apartment, or a fixed-gear bicycle. Or a Moleskine. You know ... Zen. The kind of brands the Dalai Lama would consume if he were a rich SF hipster. Zen.
- kragen 14y agoLike a raku tea bowl, or a haiku, or a Japanese rock garden? Those actually are Zen.
- Uchikoma 14y agoNo. A Haiku is not Zen. Haikus are influenced by Zen thinking or influenced by the same principles, but Haikus are not Zen. Rock gardens are not Zen. And tea bowls are not Zen.
- kragen 14y agoJapanese rock gardens originate in Zen monastery practice in Kyoto. That is, Zen monks designed, built, and maintained them as part of their practice of Zen Buddhism. The best-known ones are all part of Zen Buddhist temples today. So in that sense, rock gardens are Zen. The other two cases are not as open and shut. Basho, who brought haiku into its modern form, was not a monk, but did practice Zen meditation as a layman, and lived as a pilgrim and hermit, teaching a circle of disciples, like an abbot. Issa, the second most influential haiku poet after Basho, was an honest-to-goodness Jodo Shinshu Buddhist (though not Zen!) priest. Furthermore, the haiku aesthetic embodies Zen's fierce focus on the ephemeral beauty of the current moment. I think that saying that the practice of haiku is "influenced by the same principles" is such an understatement as to be absurd. Right now I am not going to dig into the history of raku.
- Uchikoma 14y agoI didn't say Zen monks didn't build rock gardens or haikus are not influenced by Zen aesthetics and thinking. Equating rock gardens or haikus with Zen makes one laugh. Mu. Zen is a school of buddhism which focuses on enlightenment, with different sub schools that focus on different methods for attaining enlightenment (well actually it's not, but it helps seeing Zen practitioners goal as gaining enlightment). Zen is not rock gardens, wabi sabi or haikus. Christianity is not building gothic cathedrals. Glad I have no clue about Zen, or I would need to slap you on your head with a stick.
- kragen 14y agoOh, I see where the disconnect was. You thought I was saying that the rock gardens were Zen Buddhism. I was saying that the rock gardens are Zen Buddhist, in the same way that the Gothic cathedrals are Christian or the Alhambra is Islamic. Of course Zen does not consist of composing haiku, building rock gardens, or reading koans.
- saraid216 14y agoFor more, http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Judaism-For-Little-Enlightenment/dp/060961021X http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Judaism-For-Little-Enlightenment/d... ... dropping the trivial words makes the tagline weird. It's "Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment".
- minikomi 14y agoBefore correcting anything, you must first write out everything on twitter.
- kragen 14y agoCan you explain in more detail what taking notes has to do with Zen? It seems like kind of the opposite, in a way — feeding the monkey mind instead of digging the experience.