Unit of self. Are we separate from everyone and everything else, or are we all connected? Fingers on a hand. Forced isolation = famine. Catch. Keith Sawyer on group flow. Us-vs.-them-ism. Tonglen meditation. Comparing chickadees. “A human being is having this feeling.” The best—and worst—I can do. Wall of wins. We’re all in this together. Being with. (Original air date: 8/3/2020)
Stimulus & Response: https://stimulus-response.com
Damon: https://www.sidestreetcoaching.com
Jeremy: http://jeremynsmith.com
“The Social Brain and Its Superpowers” (Matthew Lieberman TedX talk): https://youtu.be/NNhk3owF7RQ
“What Mel Brooks Can Teach Us about ‘Group Flow’” by Keith Sawyer: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_mel_brooks_can_teach_us_about_group_flow/
Jeremy’s book on community farming, “Growing a Garden City”: http://jeremynsmith.com/growing-a-garden-city.html
“How to Practice Tonglen” by Pema Chödrön: https://www.lionsroar.com/how-to-practice-tonglen/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x95ltQP8qQ
Quote Jeremy attributed to his sister attributing to Maya Angelou: “The best a person can do, I can do. And the worst a person can do, I can do.”
“Cosmic Eye”(Google scales of the universe) video: https://youtu.be/8Are9dDbW24
“You Would Rather Endure Electric Shocks Than Sit Alone With Your Thoughts, Study Finds”: https://time.com/2950919/alone-with-thoughts/
Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Heart of Understanding,” on “interbeing”: “If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. If we look even more deeply, we can see the sunshine, the logger who cut the tree, the wheat that became his bread, and the logger’s father and mother. Without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist. In fact, we cannot point to one thing that is not here—time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat, the mind. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. So we can say that the cloud and the paper ‘inter-are.’ We cannot just be by ourselves alone; we have to inter-be with every other thing.”
