95% Subconscious – The principle of Practice (1)
Get frustrated because you can’t wait for a few seconds? You’re practicing something that makes you feel frustrated. 95% percent of practice is subconscious.
Ask yourself to inquire.
Philosophy is something you practice. Since we quickly get used to ordinary things, then how do we open our minds to the unknown? To ask. Ask yourself.
Open up your heart.
Thaumazein (to feel wondrous) is key. New inspiration requires surprise. It takes a moment to jump out of the circuitry of the expected. Open up your heart.
Posture lets you think
We think with our minds and act on what we think. James Gibson flipped this view called the nature of our interaction with our environment affordance.
Resonate with the Earth
We are the eyes and ears of the earth, and we can think as if we were the earth. We live between ourselves and the air. Interaction is the soul.
Your environment is reflected in your mind!
Look at how the ant walks on the sand. It’s not that the ant’s mind is complicated. It’s the environment. When you feel unsettled, it is reflected in your mind.
Empathy and Economy
Based on empathy, Adam Smith theorized the foundation of the modern economics. How do we use the energy of the mind? The human mind is also an economy.
The whole is the soul
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.