Barry Magid

@ordinarymind1

Zen Teacher Psychoanalyst Author of Ending the Pursuit of Happiness

Joined July 2016

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  1. 20 Jul 2019

    The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age Nothing by David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Gerhard Richter, Howard Hodgkin..... My Contemporary Age is simply not theirs....

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  2. 5 May 2019

    The first years of Zen practice are like climbing a mountain - challenging, strenuous, sometimes excruciating but culminating in extraordinary views and a sense of having gone beyond what you imagined possible. Decades in, it’s like being in an endless traffic jam no end in sight

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  3. 20 Mar 2019

    What is your practice now, Roshi? “Getting old.” Who is your teacher? “Time.”

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  4. 27 Feb 2019

    Student: “What is the best breathing technique for Zen meditation?” Teacher: “ For each inhale, there should be exactly one exhale.”

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  5. 27 Feb 2019

    Legacy: “During more then four decades of teaching and writing, his wisdom and compassion have touched the hearts and transformed the lives of a handful of a people.”

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  6. 2 Feb 2019

    Does this apply to anyone you know in academia? “If I’ve gotten ahead, it’s because I’ve stepped on the toes of giants.”

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  7. 21 Jan 2019

    If Trump wants a shutdown, give him a real one. Federal workers should say “no pay, no work!”

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    Rarely seen “eat your vegetables or we’re buying a puppy and going to Disneyland” parenting tactic there

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  9. 10 Oct 2018

    College students are drowning in debt but shutting down their colleges over pronouns.

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  10. 4 May 2018

    Just got my 23&Me results: my closest living relatives are a pack of gray wolves in Canada

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  11. 2 Apr 2018

    In America prosperity has usually meant making poverty racism and inequality not non-existent but invisible.

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  12. 22 Feb 2018

    For the right to operate in NYC, Uber should be required to buy back all the yellow cab medallions from their owners at cost

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  13. 14 Jan 2018

    Bitcoin has become the Facebook of cryptos - for old folks who don't get Ripple and ICOs...

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  14. 24 Dec 2017

    The logic that connects UFOs to faeries would also connect his Spirit made flesh, God-man Christ to a whole range of similar mythologies.

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  15. 12 Dec 2017

    Thank God 50% of Alabamans still have a gag reflex

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  16. 1 Dec 2017

    Bitcoin has crossed over from being an alternative currency to being a commodity. Currencies require backing; no one asks what guarantees the value of gold.

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  17. 19 Nov 2017

    Primo Levi dies and goes to Heaven where he tries to tell an Auschwitz joke to God. God does not laugh. Levi shrugs, "I guess you had to be there."

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  18. 12 Nov 2017

    Specialists in the treatment of narcissism fear their field is not getting sufficient attention

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    “Freud made the quantum leap required to treat brain disorders in a rational manner and ,in the long run, he will be given the credit that he is due”

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  20. 27 Oct 2017

    With sex, it's especially true that the perfect is the enemy of the good

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