Andy's Mind

I had a dream tonight.

I was in a large, empty parking lot, like in shopping malls, with celling supported by yellow painted pillars. I sat in meditation in roshi’s robes. Suddenly I had a strong feeling of presence behind me. After a while, unable to ignore it, I turned and looked. There was no one there. Just pillars. I resumed my posture. A while later a small, brown mouse walked past my left leg from behind. It stopped and looked up at me with its small eyes. I looked at him and smiled. He moved his whiskers and walked away.

I woke up.

I was on Jakusho Kwong Roshi’s lecture today and I have his book here before me. But I won’t write about it this week because I think I should first scribble a few words about books that are, in my humble opinion, better for those who never heard much about Buddhism before. I’m referring to Geshe Michael Roach’s two excellent works – “The Diamond Cutter” and “The Garden“.

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Today I had the opportunity to hear Jakusho Kwong Roshi speak. Amongst other things he mentioned briefly digital age we are now and observed, that we as humans are being reduced to objects. I agree, we become objects that can be quantified by numbers – I wrote about this already in the context of hiring. But, why we even think it is possible to describe a human being with a set of numerical, processable parameters? Where did we get this idea in the first place?

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Being a blogger means that I read many blogs. Partly because I like some (a subset of those you see listed in the links on the right), partly because of various traffic exchanges which are based on surfing other blogs. Because of my tendencies for honesty (and lack of willpower when presented with written word) I usually do read blogs I surf across on blogexplosion or blogsoldiers. If you add to that blogs that I visit through other places, I think that by now I have visited a few hundred blogs. And, I can’t help but notice some patterns and similarities.

Of course, saying there is a pattern, of any kind, to anything related to humans is extremely politically incorrect. But being politically incorrect is very bloggy, so I will share my observations with you. Take them with a grain of salt, though. It is not any kind of research, although I’m tempted by now to begin doing some simple statistics.

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