A few months back I traveled to San Diego for my first professional SEO Conference. It turned out to be an adventure that I’ll never forget. I was sent there to “figure out how to make us money” – according to my boss, at least. Personally, I had hoped to get a glimpse at the future of the profession and the trends for 2010. I also secretly desired a couple …Read More
On Fear
Paul Atreides came so close! But like so many others before him, Frank Herbert’s protagonist from the awesome Dune series (the Muad’Dib himself) looked into the abyss, then entirely missed the point. I’m referring, of course, to one of the most prolific lines from his incredible inter galactic epic; that famous Bene Gesserit litany against fear: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings …Read More
What Does it Mean to be “Religious”?
The religious mind is something entirely different from the mind that believes in religion. You cannot be religious and yet be a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist.Read More
Smiling Into The Void
Is it possible to live without the shadow of the past? Can we survive even a single day without rumination, reminiscence, reexamination, and regret? Can we escape that all-too-human tendency to revisit our previous experiences- our memories, actions, and behavior- and instead live completely and entirely in the present moment? In my personal experience, this has proven to be one the most difficult (if not the most difficult) things for …Read More
Conceptual Thought
When we live in a world of concepts, as we do now (“good” vs. “bad”, “pretty” vs. “ugly”, and all the rest of the didactic pairs), we never meet the world itself, but instead we meet our concept, or description of the world. We meet our images, our ideas, and our beliefs about the world. This is what the Tibetan Buddhists are attempting to point out with their discussions of …Read More
Concentration vs. Attention – Part II
This post is the second piece in my series on “The Difference Between Concentration and Attention“. — To take a step back, let’s start over by defining the word “concentration” using the help of Dictionary.com, which explains that concentration means “exclusive attention to one object; close mental application”. Simple and concise, unlike my own attempts. And now that we know what concentration means, let’s define “attention” using one of Krishnamurti’s …Read More
Concentration vs. Attention – Part I
== JKrishnamurti.org Daily Quote === There is a difference between concentration and attention. Concentration is to bring all your energy to focus on a particular point. In attention there is no point of focus. We are very familiar with one and not with the other. When you pay attention to your body, the body becomes quiet, which has its own discipline; it is relaxed but not slack and it has …Read More
Taking an Inventory
Being Thanksgiving, I figure that most of us probably played the “What am I thankful for?” game today, so I want to do something a little different here tonight. Instead of listing the things that I’m thankful for, I’d like to talk about the difference between what I have, what I want, and what I need. And let me start by saying that most of the “What I’m thankful for” …Read More