A piece of wisdom from
March 4, 2025 · Tuesday
The quote
“Rikyu's son swept the garden until it was spotless. Rikyu shook a maple, and three leaves fell. "Now," he said, "it is clean."”
— Sen no Rikyu · Wabi-Sabi
The concept
Flow State
The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
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 sur…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Flow State. The closest you get, in waking life, to disappearing, and being more yourself than ever, at the same time.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 15.5
निर्मानमोहा जितसङ्गदोषा अध्यात्मनित्या विनिवृत्तकामाः। द्वन्द्वैर्विमुक्ताः सुखदुःखसंज्ञैर्गच्छन्त्यमूढाः पदमव्ययं तत्॥
“Free from pride and delusion, conquerors of the evil of attachment, ever steadfast in the self, with desires withdrawn, freed from the dualities of pleasure and pain — undeluded, they reach that imperishable abode.”
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