Sunday, February 28, 2010

Involves quite a bit of re understanding

First there is learning the vocabulary. Then the concepts behind the definitions of the words and then the burning down of old ingrained assumptions of assumptions. This is going to take some time to grok.

An Introduction to Awareness

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

can you see the contra arguments to the arguments?

my personal belief is that these guys are more interested in selling books so that they can buy stuff than they are interested in making the world a better place for those who come after us. but i have no real evidence of that so perhaps i am an idiot.

i am bookmarking this because it is a beautiful summary of all that is highly inefficient in their approach to the situation that consumes their time (and fills their bank accounts). i want to come back to this and understand it in more detail.

plus they are very intelligent guys and you get a lot of good vocabulary.

part 1

part 2

Is there only one way to get an education?

The Zen pumpkin guy has some interesting ideas on the question.

Watch it here.