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Paroles Zen

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

book
http://books.google.com/books?id=ID&pg=PA

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

Overall remarks and questions

  • if everything is an algorithm (cf Programming The Universe and My Beliefs)
  • 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

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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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