Zhengzhou, May 26: Diary, I once read how Herb Brooks, coach of the “miracle” 1980 American Olympic hockey team that won the Gold Medal, and Phil Jackso, Zen master and pro basketball coach, began their coaching with philosophy, with reflective purpose, not strategy or tactic. Wonder what would happen if we academics had a deeply [...]
65 degrees outside this morning. Brrrrr! I didn’t know that our South Georgia thermometers went down that low. As I was engaged in my mobile mediation of walking the pre-dawn streets, I thought about how this week I’ve begun to feel it. My senses have been going on full alert. I’ve been slowly going deep [...]
My Dean has challenged her faculty by coming up with what she calls “The Giraffe Award,” to be given to the A & S faculty member who sticks her or his neck out the farthest. It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, among her faculty picks up the gauntlet. I know that I [...]
Zhengzhou, May 25: Diary, ….I was telling a Zhengzhou student that I find that there is a union between scientific studies of the brain and Chinese philosophy. I explained that the latest of what I call “brainology” shows that there is an anatomical basis for four elements of Zen that are critical to teaching: Attentiveness, [...]
