Posts tagged Lifestyle
How To Dismantle Your Apartment in Less Than 6 Weeks
One year ago at this time, I did something noone prepared me for: I reduced everything that I own to the size of a suitcase. Why? My wife and I had decided to move to a foreign country which was almost 3,000 kilometers away. Shipping the contents of our apartment (furniture, dishes, my homestudio equipment…
How Social Media Leads to “Social Crash”
We have seen the Financial Crisis. We got bailed out into a hypothetical state of stability. But how to bail out when social network relationships fail? Introduction The more our relationships of networking and nurturing are being outsourced to the Net, the more people seem to be befallen by a completely new brand of anxiety:…
Leadership, Business, and Animal Spirits
The Spiritual Core As readers of this blog may be aware, I am a person who has thoroughly read and studied Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. I even wrote a book explaining the terse passages at some length, with less arcane language, though I’d be kidding if I said it was successful; I just…
A Flower Pot
A Flower Pot By Jeremiah Bourque This is a flower pot. What is a flower pot for? It is not for cooking. It is for holding flowers. One puts the flowers into the pot. The flowers are displayed while in the pot. Flower pots are a feature of a great many homes. These pots are…
Eat when Tired, Sleep when Hungry
Do you sometimes do things which aren’t on point? Do you sometimes do the opposite of what you feel you should? Do you sometimes wonder why it seems you want to do one thing and yet you do another? Don’t worry, we all do. There is a famous saying in Zen that goes “Eat when…
Why I wrote A Mindful Guide to Online Living
[UPDATE: The second edition and the audio book are out and can be downloaded here.] [UPDATE: The book is now published and available as a download here.] Since I co-founded Learn Out Live with a few other teachers in January this year, a lot has happened. I taught students from Russia, America, Brazil, Austria, England,…