"Mere intellectual understanding is not enough. It is not by leaving the doctor's prescription by the bedside or learning it by heart that we are cured. We must integrate what we have learned so that our understanding becomes intimately bound up into our mind's flow. Then it ceases to be theory and becomes self-transformation. Indeed, … Continue reading Meditation: Familiarization With a New Way of Being
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Perception & Reality
"'We read the world wrong and say it deceives us,' wrote Rabindranath Tagore. We take for permanent that which is ephemeral and for happiness that which is but a source of suffering: the desire for wealth, for power, for fame, and for nagging pleasures...By knowledge we mean not mastery of masses of information and learning … Continue reading Perception & Reality
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
A kind of zen koan in the form of a multiple choice test. Questions are asked, and it's never entirely clear what the correct answer might be, if there is one. Perfect book for reading in the bathroom, self-reflection, thinking about language, etc. It's not a book you can read in one sitting, and it … Continue reading Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
Book Queue: May 2017
1. Moore, Alan. Jerusalem. 2. Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. 3. Endō, Shūsaku. Silence. 4. Vaughan, Brian K. The Saga series. 5. Shakur, Assata. Assata An Autobiography. 6. Liew, Sonny. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. 7. Spengler, Oswald. The Decline of the West. 8. Moorcook, Michael. Elric series. 9. Alain. The Gods. 10. … Continue reading Book Queue: May 2017
Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary
Chapter 1: Reinforcement A reinforcer is anything that, occuring in conjunction with an act, tends to increase the probability that the act will occur again.There are two kinds of reinforcers: positive and negative.Reinforcers are relative, not absolute – in order to be reinforcing, it must be something the subject wants or doesn’t want.A major point … Continue reading Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary
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