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fantastic speech re the Value of education

and part 2:

from David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address to Kenyon College

dallas

thought-provoking article on American work life

The Stone: What Work Is Really For
<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/work-good-or-bad/>

For most of us, work is a means to something else: it makes a living, but it doesn't make a life. So shouldn't leisure be our goal?

tags: capitalism, labor, Philosophy, work

"There's nothing more generous you can offer than yourself."

the title quotation is from this video

vipassana article

I can't help but share this beautiful dialogue from Paul R. Fleischman M.D., lucidly describing Vipassana meditation: <http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=202>

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"At its root, meditation is a compass, and a path that gives you internal guidance about how to live. It leads you towards those states of mind in which wholesome states arise more frequently and unwholesome states arise less often."

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"by reducing the noise, these deep realistic states arise. These states are not at all strategic, in that they aren’t geared toward trying to accomplish a certain pre-defined aim. Instead, this deep realism is such that it becomes a foundation, and applies to all situations in a way that is profoundly important: it affords the freedom to truly engage."

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Dr. Fleischman, who has been a psychiatrist for over 30 years, has also been selected as a Vipassana assistant teacher, requiring decades of practice.
<http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?sid=202>

a painting

Pythagoreans celebrate sunrise by Fyodor Bronnikov

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