Paroles Zen {ReadingNotes}

Paroles Zen by Marc de Smedt - ISBN 9782226064387 - Albin Michel 1994

Motivation

Since few years now, probably motivated by failure from people close to me, I try to live in a minimalist way. The zen philosophy seems to be overall rather close to it, focusing on what really matters in order to avoid unnecessary stress.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• 1 Introduction to Template
  • "interesting quote." (p1)
  • note
  • ...
• 2 Interesting thing
  • (p20)

See also

• Marc de Smedt on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Zen
  • Wikipedia:Zazen
• Lean Thinking which, despite its business focus, question what value is and how one could avoid waste, also from Japanese origin (Toyota way)
  • Wikipedia:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Zen Garden On Your Desktop simulates the Zen garden experience.
• Meditation

Overall remarks and questions

• if everything is an algorithm (cf Programming The Universe and My Beliefs)
  • if living organism are self-sustaining algorithms (using homeostasis, cf The Things We Do)
    • how is that different from Wikipedia:Shinto
• inspired few aphorisms
• could zazen also help in CS/IT tasks beside pauses?
  • could the posture itself be used during the day?
• le bonzai au final n'est que le resultat tangible mais le temps qu'on y passe en est la reelle "valeur"
  • also inspired by my visit to Bonsai Gallery of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)

Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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