Sitting meditation is a kind of ascetic practice, like fasting, that helps us widen and deepen the aperture of our attention so that the subtleties of Being can show themselves. Read the full essay by Jacob Given here.
Author: The Side View
People say that practice is something you do with your body, but that’s backwards. Your body is something you do with your practice. A new article by Sam Mickey available here.
Design adjusts the parameters for what we are, for what is probable, and for what we can become. Design is the bootstrap by which animals, humans in particular, become capable of lifting themselves up to novel levels of existence. A new article by Roope Kaaronen available here.
The Side View is about the knowledge and intuition we use to navigate the world. It’s about how our minds meet the world, but it’s also about how our minds, when trained in the right way, change how we perceive what’s around us and within us. It’s about how we become skilled perceivers and doers, people who know the right details to attend to and the right actions to take. (more…)