Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on January 21, 2022, 07:32:08 PM
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Thich Nhat Hahn, the Buddhist monk who was widely known for teaching the antithesis of multi-tasking and multi-threading. He taught "mindful being." Greatly oversimplified, that boils down to "When you're cooking -- cook. When you're washing dishes -- wash dishes." Don't scatter your energies by trying to do several things at the same time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thich-nhat-hanh-poetic-peace-activist-and-master-of-mindfulness-dies-at-95/ar-AAT1gqP
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Rest In Peace
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Double post
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But I can watch a movie, troll Twitter, and watch you guys, while deciding whether to either turn off the space heater or drink moar whiskey, and do that all at once...
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But I can watch a movie, troll Twitter, and watch you guys, while deciding whether to either turn off the space heater or drink moar whiskey, and do that all at once...
You're missing the point.
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There is a point? Why is there a point? Does there have to be a point?
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RIP
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Despite the warning about oversimplification, and with no disrespect to the deceased, I had to wonder how come one can take a simple, readily observable thing and complicate it up enough to write a book about it and become famous as a "movement founder."
No disrespect to either the poster or the good monk, RIP, but I sure wondered about that.
Psychologists are great at doing just exactly that.
For money.
So are politicians.
For power.
I have found that my multitasking is actually a rapid sequence of single tasks. Sometimes not so rapid.
Holy crap ! A powerful insight ! Maybe I should expand that into a book !
=D
I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.
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Despite the warning about oversimplification, and with no disrespect to the deceased, I had to wonder how come one can take a simple, readily observable thing and complicate it up enough to write a book about it and become famous as a "movement founder."
No disrespect to either the poster or the good monk, RIP, but I sure wondered about that.
It's one of those things where, if I have to explain it to you, I can't explain it to you.
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Yeah, I understand that, like what Harley owners and Burning Man attendees say.
I'm just more appreciative of when one goes the other way, taking the complex and analyzing it to its simple components.
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Despite the warning about oversimplification, and with no disrespect to the deceased, I had to wonder how come one can take a simple, readily observable thing and complicate it up enough to write a book about it and become famous as a "movement founder."
No disrespect to either the poster or the good monk, RIP, but I sure wondered about that.
Psychologists are great at doing just exactly that.
For money.
So are politicians.
For power.
I have found that my multitasking is actually a rapid sequence of single tasks. Sometimes not so rapid.
Holy crap ! A powerful insight ! Maybe I should expand that into a book !
=D
I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.
Sign me up for the first leather-bound copy. Autographed, if you please! =)
Woody
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Yeah, I understand that, like what Harley owners and Burning Man attendees say.
I'm just more appreciative of when one goes the other way, taking the complex and analyzing it to its simple components.
A point may be either obvious or obscure, but in either case, it's not necessarily profound.
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I did not know much about him, other than cool quotes I would see now and zen, but zen can be useful
ZEN IN THE ART OF ARCHERY - ( awesome book I read last century )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRy1fklNAsU
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Fast is slow, but slow is fast.
Got it.