To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind of clarity and simplicity that people expect from meditation.
It's not about emptying your mind, that's impossible, it's about learning to be fully present in the moment. Anchor in your breath, in your senses, in the right now and think "Breathing in, I know my mind is wandering"
I like to imagine it as a clear afternoon day. Some thoughts, some clouds will appear, but my presence is the sky behind them.
The "640k should be enough for anyone" quote (even if Gates didn't exactly say it) is making the point is that _right now_ we have no idea about what our future needs and capabilities will be, we can't imagine what "should be enough" will be
640k was enough ... in 1981 ... almost fifty years later is 50,000 lower than a standard off the shelf PC now
It's designed by committee, with n stakeholders with n+1 opinions and motivations and pressures from other business units over 17 workshops and governance decisions
As an Australian, the lack of anxiety and guilt you get when you're using 10-12 hours of air conditioning in the middle of summer and not paying for a cent of it because your solar panels are covering is worth more than anything
To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind of clarity and simplicity that people expect from meditation.
It's not about emptying your mind, that's impossible, it's about learning to be fully present in the moment. Anchor in your breath, in your senses, in the right now and think "Breathing in, I know my mind is wandering"
I like to imagine it as a clear afternoon day. Some thoughts, some clouds will appear, but my presence is the sky behind them.
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