Ken Wilber uses a phrase to describe the dual development of wisdom and compassion on the spiritual path, “Hurts More, Bothers you Less”. This is pointing to the relationship to suffering as one’s contemplative understanding deepens. Somehow suffering is more real, and hurts more deeply, but at the same time because one’s identity has expanded [...]
My good buddy, and co-worker Duff McDuffee, is featured on Thrilling Heroics (a cool looking Gen Y focused leadership/business blog) in an interview entitled Bright Young Minds. The interview is actually quite good, and it provides a lot of clarity into Falling Fruit’s mission and vision, and why we are trying to be part of [...]
In the first part of this series I shared some of the techniques and principles I’ve adopted from the books, Bit Literacy and Getting Things Done. In this post I continue to share some of the other techniques and tools I’ve found useful in my personal productivity system. Agile Development From the world of agile [...]
When one has a lot of interests, passions, and therefore a lot to actually work on and work towards, it is exceedingly helpful to have some sort of explicitly defined personal productivity system. While I’ve always been fairly productive in school (not that being in school taught me much useful about the subject) what I [...]
Good video on Ken Wilber talking about the notion of a technological singularity: Interpreting the Singularity. Although Ken doesn’t seem to have a very good grasp of Kurzweil’s work or of technology in general (hey, it isn’t his strong suite … I know, I worked with him on technology issues for a couple of years), [...]
This week on Buddhist Geeks we aired the 1st part of a conversation that I recorded with Buddhist teacher Judith Simmer-Brown. Judith teaches graduate courses at Naropa, and I was fortunate enough to take a class with her my last semester there. The class was on The First Turning of Buddhism, specifically focusing on the [...]
My first writing inquiry was inspired by a quote a ran across in my continued reading of Reggie Ray’s book, Secret of the Vajra World. Thrangu Rinpoche writes: Although the essence of Mahamudra is non-existent, at the same time its manifestation is completely unobstructed. For instance, we can say our mind is empty because when [...]
I’ve started a new process of spiritual inquiry, along the lines of what Adyashanti suggests, and which resembles the process of spiritual autolysis. The basic gist of what Adyashanti suggests is to hold a question in mind (one with spiritual import, not a mundane question like “what should i have for breakfast?), and then to [...]
Vincent Horn is a Buddhist Geek and digital innovator. In addition to being an experienced meditation practitioner, and teacher, Vincent co-founded the popular media company Buddhist Geeks where he currently serves as Chief Geek. His work focuses on the fusion of nascent technology and contemplative wisdom, and has been featured on the pages of Wired, Fast Company, Tricycle, and the Los Angeles Times. Along with his wife Emily, he makes his home in Boulder, Colorado—that is until the distinction between atoms and bits dissolves completely.
