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Tag: focus

Lewis Hyde
Book Bits

Lewis Hyde on Dogen and Self-Forgetting

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

Lewis Hyde weighs up the use of memory and asks, when is forgetting the best strategy?

Tagged concentration, Dogen, focus, forgetting, history, Meditation, memory, Practice, remembering, time, transcendence, Zen1 Comment
Taisen Deshimaru
Book Bits

“Penetrate Life” – Taisen Deshimaru on Living in the Here and Now

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Vanessa Able

The grandson of a retired samurai, Deshimaru took a lot of wisdom from the principles of martial arts.

Tagged bushido, concentration, energy, focus, Kodo Sawaki, martial arts, Moon, Practice, river, samurai, Taisen Deshimaru, zazen, ZenLeave a comment
Shinzen Young
Book Bits

What is Meditation? Shinzen Young on How to Deepen Our Focus

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shinzen Young on the most basic principle of mindfulness meditation: the cultivation of focus that can be practiced at any moment of the day, during any activity.

Tagged activity, Enlightenment, focus, Meditation, mindfulness, psychology, science, secular practice, SilenceLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
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