Algorithmic Meditation Instruction
In this post, we’ll explore how algorithms can inform meditation instruction and the student-teacher relationship.
Month: August 2019
Using Mindfulness to Practice Making Decisions
In this post, we’ll explore how meditation techniques can improve our decision-making skills.
Catalyzing Positive Behavior Change with Mindful Review
In this post, I’ll share one of several meditation techniques that have dramatically changed my meditation practice and life: Mindful Review.
Means-Ends, Conditions-Consequences, and the Game of Risk
Most Western strategic thought takes place in a means-ends framework. In this post, I’ll discuss an alternative to means-ends strategic thinking: conditions-consequences.
Monasteries Bibliography
The longer I train in monasteries, the more I become interested in monasteries as social institutions, and in aspects that are incidental to their purpose. This includes the social, political, economic, technological, and historical dimensions of monasteries.
The Distraction Algorithm
In this post, we’ll look at a practical example of a meditation technique that makes explicit use of algorithms, Soryu Forall’s Distraction Algorithm.