Distortion Mantra: Sitting Fast, Sitting Slow
Being calm enough to push back and set aside time to do nothing is truly subversive in these times, when even hobbies can be turned into consumable content or gamified.
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Category: Beginner Meditation
Distortion Mantra: Sitting as Resistance
To simply be nowadays is a rebellion of sorts, removing yourself from a process of obey, consume, repeat (to quote an old John Carpenter film).
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Meditating, Noise and Birthday Girls
I realised that all the ruckus had become “noise.” Shouting Spaniards, the TV next door, the souped-up car—it was all just “noise.”
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Tonglen for LA
If we don’t look the homeless man in the eyes we don’t have to face his humanity. It’s so much easier to cross the street, to bury ourselves in some other mind numbing distraction from the realities that others are facing. To turn away. There is a Buddhist practice called Tonglen, which is the exact opposite of turning away.
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The Day I Broke Noble Silence (With Andrew Dice Clay)
Yes. I had just quoted the opening line of a dirty 1980s limerick. In a Buddhist silent retreat.
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