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Archive for March 2012
Video of the Week: Designing For Generosity
March 2, 2012
Designing for Generosity
March 2, 2012Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing. — Paola Antonelli
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Inspiration of the Day:
What would the world look like if we designed for generosity? Instead of assuming that people want to simply maximize self-interest, what if our institutions and organizations were built around our deepest motivations? A recent TEDx talk explores this question and introduces the concept of Giftivism: the practice of radically generous acts that change the world. The video is charged with stories of such acts, ranging from: the largest peaceful transfer of land in human history, to a pay-it-forward restaurant, to a 10-year-old’s unconventional birthday celebration, and the stunning interaction between a victim and his teenage mugger. With clarity and insight, it details the common threads that runs through all these gift manifestations, and invites us to participate through everyday acts of kindness — in an uplifting global movement.
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Be The Change:
Engage in an act of giftivism. Do something radically generous, with focus on your inner experience, and observe its ripple effect.
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Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
March 1, 2012 |
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Dharma Quote of the WeekWe are beings of the Desire Realm, and thus our minds are also included within Desire Realm minds. If we cultivate great compassion, our own minds are the basis for great compassion. By contemplating countless sentient beings and meditating to develop great compassion, one eventually achieves great compassion. At that point, the mental basis–one’s own mind–has become of the entity of great compassion. There is no distinguishing the two at that time. Meditating on great compassion does not mean taking compassion as an object and looking at it; it means taking sentient beings as one’s object and developing compassion for them such that the mind comes to be of the nature of great compassion. The texts frequently speak of different mental bases: the basis for calm abiding, the basis for meditative absorption, the basis for achieving a path. The way of understanding all of these is the same. You may wonder whether, when one cultivates a certain path, the mind becomes of the entity of that path. It is important to understand this question because that is, in fact, what occurs when one cultivates calm abiding. The mental basis becomes of the nature of calm abiding. –from Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual Transformation Through Meditation by Geshe Gedun Lodro, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications Calm Abiding and Special Insight • Now at 5O% off! |
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Kindness Daily: To Whoever Finds This
March 1, 2012
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Today I had to pick my son up early from school and decided to go to a local store. While I was looking around I noticed there was an envelope on the shelf. At first I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Even though it was addressed "To Whoever Finds This" I thought I might get in trouble if I took it. I looked at it for a while then decided to risk it.
“Steal” Like an Artist
March 1, 2012Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — T.S. Eliot
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Good News of the Day:
“Austin Kleon is positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet. His Newspaper Blackout project is essentially a postmodern florilegium, using a black Sharpie to make art and poetry by redacting newspaper articles. In this excellent talk from The Economist’s Human Potential Summit, titled ‘Steal Like an Artist,’ Kleon makes an articulate and compelling case for combinatorial creativity and the role of remix in the idea economy.” Cultural Curator Maria Popova shares his 8-minute talk and her perspective on it.
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Be The Change:
Remix some ideas today, transforming someone else’s contributions into new value.
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