The Zen state of "no mind" is the same state the climber calls being in the zone. The vocabulary differs; the experience does not.
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Flow State
Flow is not productivity. It is not focus. It is the optimal state of human experience — total absorption in an activity that matches your skill to a challenge worth caring about. Csikszentmihalyi spent thirty years documenting it across surgeons, climbers, chess players, factory…
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