Comments for Kloncke

Comment on Mapping by ei powell

ei powell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:21:05 +0000

awesome! i might copy you :)

Comment on Mapping by kloncke

kloncke — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:21:06 +0000

Great, thanks Nathan! If your group produces any collaborative writings or stumbles upon good reading material, let us know — maybe we could even read something at the same time, between your group and the group at Berkeley Zen Center. :)

Comment on Mapping by nathangthompson

nathangthompson — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:08:00 +0000

We are reading Rothberg’s book in our newly formed engaged Buddhism group at my Zen center. If I have any additions for your map, I’ll let you know.

Comment on By Hand: Hobbit Diorama by kloncke

kloncke — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:27:38 +0000

heeheehee, thanks! i think it belongs with my mom for now. but someday it might journey elsewhere.

when you return from india i will commission from you (in payment of cooked meals?) a diorama of your time there. :)

Comment on By Hand: Hobbit Diorama by Sycorax

Sycorax — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:15:32 +0000

I LOVE YOUR DIORAMA! SO EFFING CUTE! BRING IT HOME!!! :D

Comment on Graph Your Happiness? by kloncke

kloncke — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:05:26 +0000

So wise of snoring dorm-mate! :)

Do you measure your happiness? How?

(Also, once again, congrats on your reading of your play. I wonder what your ‘happiness index’ would have read just afterward?)

Comment on Graph Your Happiness? by Sequana

Sequana — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:59:20 +0000

Methinks who left it was your dorm-mate. Perhaps the one who snored?

Comment on Graph Your Happiness? by kloncke

kloncke — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:34:33 +0000

Interesting! Thanks, Max. I didn't know about this philosophy behind the mala practice:

For a Buddhist, delusion is the only legitimate source of worry. Worrying about money or health is, by comparison, relatively pointless. There will never be enough money in the world (that seems to be the point of money), and our health is guaranteed to fail in the end, no matter what we do. The wordless message of the Buddhist mala is "Don't worry about things; worry about the fact that you are so worried all the time, and address the root of that." The mala is a teaching in itself.

Dennis, that's a good point on the non-linear approach. Especially now that linear ideas about happiness are gaining traction in Western bourgeois economics, which equate more happiness with higher profits:

Comment on Graph Your Happiness? by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:26:43 +0000

Perhaps the pattern is more significant than the beads… Perhaps it is a hint that measuring Happiness is not a linear proposition. But you already knew that…

Comment on Graph Your Happiness? by Max Airborne

Max Airborne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:19:57 +0000

Count your blessings.