Bhante Bodhidhamma said that it’s natural for us to be absorbed into tasks and lose our broader self-awareness (like a flow state). For him, what’s important is the heart quality with which we enter this ‘absorption’, for that’s what gets cultivated.https://youtu.be/cB4lI1tIK-U
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Technology can be used skillfully as a means to ford the stream and cross the churning ocean, but needn't be treated as an end in itself.
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Access to the teachings, practice info, connecting with online sanghas, journaling are all boons of technology. But they never make devices an intrinsically good use of time and attention – two resources that technology consumes liberally and yet are critical for us.
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We can go from app to app and even from one legitimate task to the next like a monkey always finding the next branch.
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