August 27, 2013

Vive Les Geeks!

I just got back from Buddhist Geeks. It was great. Got a chance to reconnect with a lot of my old friends and to make a few new ones.

Here are some pics and description. (A huge thanks to Har-Prakash Khalsa – he took all of these photos except where otherwise noted.)





Horsing around with Daniel Ingram



With Gary Weber 



With Diane Hamilton. I lent her my signature Blues Brother’s hat.
(For more about the hat, see the comments I made on this blogpost.)



With ~C4Chaos

(pic courtesy of ~C4Chaos)








I mount our Harvard results within the framework of history



Visual summary of the Basic Mindfulness System. (I’ll blog about the meaning of this summary soon.)




A visual outline of our Harvard results 
(Drawn by KellyKingman)



Another view with ~C4Chaos

(pic courtesy of ~C4Chaos)


I pontificate on the The Meaning of Life



A visual outline of the Meaning of life
(Drawn by KellyKingman)



The ABCs of Being a Good Human Being  
(Detail from Meaning of Life drawn by Kelly Kingman)



5 Factors Involved in Positive Behavior Change
(Detail from Meaning of Life drawn by Kelly Kingman)



Interplay of Emptiness and Form
(Detail from Meaning of Life drawn by Kelly Kingman)


3 comments:

  1. Looking forward to the Basic Mindfulness System blog!

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  2. I just came across "five ways to know yourself" and I love it!

    I am relatively new to mediation I wanted to ask you how a couple of other practices might fit in with the Basic Mindfulness universe. You posted a picture with you and Gary Weber. I have also been reading his book and he seems to emphasize inquiry/negation (who am I?...I am not this?..) as a form of meditation and as a object of concentration in yoga. I have also been deeply influenced by the writings of Eckhart Tolle and his emphasis on being completely present and realizing that you can be enlightened NOW. I also come from a Baha'i background where the emphasis is on prayer/devotion/and surrender. I find that half of my meditation time is taken up by intellectually trying to piece together all these systems and it only abates when I accept the fact that I don't understand.

    Do you think it's useful to combine different systems like this? If so, how can these be incorporated into the Basic Mindfulness universe. I have some ideas but I would deeply appreciate your insight.

    Thank you all of your wonderful work!

    -Jason

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