Category: Dharma Hacker
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Is Intention running the software in your head
This is an alternative take on what I have written about before, Choose carefully how you spend your time. In that piece I riffed on Annie Dillard’s famous quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” By that is ultimately meant, you become what you spend your time doing and…
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Mental Workout
Discipline yourself or be disciplined. This could be a mantra for our times, when distractions abound. Without it, devices will master you, social media will. Whims will waste your time, goals will always be an illusion away. You wont get anything worthwhile done. You wont be the captain of your ship, the creator of your…
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DharmaHacking at its finest
Discovered this Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and live-looping artist, Yogetsu Akasaka. He live streams on YouTube. This is one of many. I could get into some seriously cool meditation to some of these tracks, this one in particular.
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Hiking adventures to combat lockdown malaise
Some pics from a few days away in Cornwall on the South West Coast Path, one of the finest walks I have ever experienced (this was my third time I love it so much). Nothing like some gorgeous outdoors by the seaside to combat lockdown malaise, lift the spirits and make you feel alive. The…
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Hacking humans – welcome to the new frontier
Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, among others, makes a powerful commencement speech in this recent video. As a Dharma Hacker I subscribe to the view that we are hackable. It’s how its done and to what end that is important. Some more thoughts on that and the video, in addition to…
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Pay attention, learn and love – a #blm statement
I want to say something. It seems that to stay silent makes one complicit. And yet…
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Wise words – morning inspiration
There are certain days which seem to cry out to be filled – mornings that plead for action – the atmosphere vibrant with expectancy and high, heroic challenge, and this was such a morning. From Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake – Filed under Literature/Poetry/Prose
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Wise words – glittering end to the weekend
Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply. Robin Wall Kimmerer – filed under inspiration/death
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Welcome to the adventures
Thanks for visiting. This is a welcome post to orient you around what this site covers and its core focus areas. Find out more about the author of this site, adventures and latest work by going to the about page. If you look at the sidebar of full posts, a list of categories and tags…
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The battle for the self and the essence of being
The other day in a meditation session I arrived at an insight – roughly represented in the doodle. In my best sessions when I can get to that calm place, insights arise. Finding that place of calm, focus and insight is difficult and not always achieved in a meditation session. Sometimes just getting to calm is…
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Product review of Spire-a Quantified Self Device which measures breath to increase mindfulness
Today I am reviewing a wellness gadget / device called Spire which measures your activities like steps, walked distance, burned calories like other fitness trackers but it is very unique when tracking breath and analyzing tension, calmness and focus times. As you can see on this pictures it comes with a beautifully designed wireless charging plate…
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Review of Jiyo-a Wellness Wellbeing Mobile App by Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, a well known and leading figure in the meditation and alternative health movement, has launched on June 12th together with his his co-founder Poonacha Machaiah a new service called Jiyo. This wellness services is focused on a mobile App experience (iOS, Android) and also works fine in a browser. It collects a lot of…
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What tools for the quantified self of the mind?
@ragnarheil you’ve already published an awesome write up on your use of Neurosky and have covered some other tools. You made some really good points about what they do. I thought why not try #workingoutloud to capture a comprehensive list of considerations when evaluating tools for the benefit of others. I also think its important…
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Meditate and measure your Brainwaves: Review of Neurosky MindWave
My first blogpost here at Innerventures is about a review of a Brainwave measuring gadget which I use for my meditation practise: MindWave Mobile: Brainwave Starter Kit. I bought it online for around 99€, using it since over a year now and want to share a summary of the use cases I experimented with. This headset connects via…
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