That’s blue

Yves Klein

Compassion Meditation Changes the Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080326204236.htm

A koan cited by Stephan Micus

Koans are short stories used by Japanese Zen masters to confront their students with the limitations of the rational mind and experience the liberation that results from approaching the world with an insight that goes beyond it.

“Believing to have understood something about the essence of life, a monk left his monastery at a young age to travel through China. After many years, on his return his old master asked him: ‘Tell me about the essence of life!’ The monk answered: ‘ When there are no clouds over the mountain the moonlight penetrates the ripples of the lake.’ The master looked at his former disciple in anger: ‘You are getting old, your hair is grey, you have just a few teeth left and still you have no understanding of life.’ The monk lowered his eyes, tears streaming over his face. After a few minutes he asked: ‘Please, would you tell me the essence of life?’ ‘When there are no clouds over the mountain,’ responded the master, ’the moonlight penetrates the ripples of the lake!’

On walking

Carry your body, but please do not let your body carry you! Walking in the streets one can see people heavily following their bodies. Their heads lean forwards, pulled by their necks, on their insecure legs, their feet scarcely touching the ground. It is evident that they are slaves to their bodies, following the whispering of their chattering minds.

We must walk well like animals do.

Put the heels down first placing the feet straight in front of you. Then expand the sole of the foot, allowing it to receive the weight of the body, moving towards the toes. While the other leg moves forward, continue to keep the back foot on the ground, so that the back of the knee remains extended and open until the last movement before lifting the foot for the next step.
This way of walking will help you to re-establish order, if your body has developed bad habits.

We are always in a hurry, we run, we run, we run, in order to be able to do as many things as possibile: to achieve, to become, to obtain. To run is a symptom of fear, to run after something, after somebody. We are slaves not only to others, but to ourselves, to our ideas, to our ambitions, to our projects, and even to our mental projections. This is a miserable attitude that life doesn’t deserve. The slave runs, but the king keeps quiet and remains still in his place.

Vanda Scaravelli, Awakening the Spine

Remote control for life

In a few years’ time, says author Bruce Sterling, the mobile phone will be our “remote control for life”.

History of Communications

iA History of Communications 35,000 BC – 1998 AD:
http://www.nathan.com/projects/current/comtimeline.html

Religious experience enhanced

Jesus Camp follows a group of young children to Pastor Becky Fischer’s “Kids on Fire Summer Camp”, where kids are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers and in God’s army and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ.

http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/

I guess it shows examples of some kind of experience enhancement techniques.