so much wisdom in this book!

recommend reading only one chapter and letting the nugget/wisdom stew for a bit (ideally a whole week!) - savoring and enjoying this book slowly will do wonders for you (and this is only my experience)

one of the things that gets me most is the manner in which I share about my meditation journey - esp life in itself is a meditation journey. I mean if our experience in life is one big meditative journey - are we not supposed to share about it at all? (Jon Kabat-Zinn is a proponent of keeping your meditative journey to yourself and not just projecting “thoughts” out there)

This brings up the whole point in regards to this space - a lot of it as a collection of thoughts organized around all kinds of themes, topics, things, book, etc. - so what is the point of sharing? isn’t language how we create worlds together?

I love this book and this point is really where I continue to get stuck.

and for the record, when I share about specific things like the Landmark Forum, Notion, meditation, TheBrain, Business Model You or just about anything you feel I’m passionate about sharing - it’s important to know I’m only passionate about these things because it is an expression of something important to me. I’m not attached to any of them (ok sometimes I am) and I really invite you to unseat and question my intentions around anything it is that I share.

Many of these thoughts are triggered by Jon’s thoughts on teaching children meditation. His advice is to just be and allow children to make their own choice for themselves (very similar to how Buddhism is not preached)

Gives me a lot of food for thought (and hope it does for you too!) 🤔

but then again, being with one’s breath over one’s thoughts is purported to be powerful 😉