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== Motivation == | == Motivation == | ||
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We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | ||
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+ | === Stillness === | ||
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+ | Photographic experiments in ethereality, | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
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=== Futures of Doing Nothing === | === Futures of Doing Nothing === | ||
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+ | Links from the online [[Mindfulness Summit]] in October 2015 | ||
==== Karma Yoga ==== | ==== Karma Yoga ==== | ||
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Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | Exercise proposal: Before beginning a meeting, sit together in silence for a few minutes. Become aware of yourself, your moods and expectations. Experience the presence of other people and remind yourself that they might have different moods or expectations, | ||
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+ | ==== Purposeless walking ==== | ||
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+ | A number of recent books have lauded the connection between walking - just for its own sake - and thinking. But are people losing their love of the purposeless walk? | ||
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- | "In october 2013 we had a great experience with our colleagues during one week of (nearly) doing nothing. we were creating a design for the week with some simple structures and tools to provide a frame for the group. after a time together in the morning with breakfeast | + | "in october 2013 we had a great experience with our colleagues during one week of (nearly) doing nothing. we were creating a design for the week with some simple structures and tools to provide a frame for the group. after a time together in the morning with feldenkrais, |
- | after the walks we were guests at our host's places. also these hosts, sometimes a group, | + | after the walks we were guests at our host's places. also these hosts, sometimes a group, |
- | All the people from our group and also our hosts were invited as the entire person they are. we were together not for work, nor to discuss something in particular; not to find anything out, not with a concrete theme or issue and nobody had to be a specialist for whatever … | + | all the people from our group and also our hosts were invited as the entire person they are. we were together not for work, nor to discuss something in particular; not to find anything out, not with a concrete theme or issue and nobody had to be a specialist for whatever … |
- | all the people were asked to be only themselves. they were not asked for their profession (artist, performer, | + | all the people were asked to be only themselves. they were not asked to participate because of their profession (artist, performer, |
- | and still, in the evenings of those days it felt as if the group had become larger and larger and our experience was that the time together with these people was so inspiring, a respectful learning from each other by doing-nothing together." | + | and still, in the evenings of those days it felt as if the group had become larger and larger and our experience was that the time together with these people was so inspiring, a respectful learning from each other by doing nothing together." |
Claudia Seigmann, theaternyx* | Claudia Seigmann, theaternyx* | ||
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+ | ==== Space Out === | ||
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+ | A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, about 70 people gathered at Ichon Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, to do absolutely nothing. There was not a smartphone in sight, no texting or taking selfies, and no one rushing to get anywhere. | ||
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+ | The crowd was taking part in South Korea' | ||
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+ | "I was suffering from burnout syndrome at the time, but would feel extremely anxious if I was sitting around doing nothing, not being productive in one way or another," | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | ==== On Agalmic ==== | ||
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+ | Nik Gaffney' | ||
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+ | ==== Keeping Quiet ==== | ||
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+ | by Pablo Neruda | ||
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+ | A callarse | ||
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+ | Ahora contaremos doce\\ | ||
+ | y nos quedamos todos quietos.\\ | ||
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+ | Por una vez sobre la tierra\\ | ||
+ | no hablemos en ningún idioma,\\ | ||
+ | por un segundo detengámonos, | ||
+ | no movamos tanto los brazos.\\ | ||
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+ | Sería un minuto fragante,\\ | ||
+ | sin prisa, sin locomotoras, | ||
+ | todos estaríamos juntos\\ | ||
+ | en una inquietud instantánea.\\ | ||
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+ | Los pescadores del mar frió\\ | ||
+ | no harían daño a las ballenas\\ | ||
+ | y el trabajador de la sal\\ | ||
+ | miraría sus manos rotas.\\ | ||
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+ | Los que preparan guerras verdes,\\ | ||
+ | guerras de gas, guerras de fuego,\\ | ||
+ | victorias sin sobrevivientes, | ||
+ | se pondrían un traje puro\\ | ||
+ | y andarían son sus hermanos\\ | ||
+ | por la sombra, sin hacer nada.\\ | ||
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+ | No se confunda lo quiero\\ | ||
+ | con la inacción definitiva: | ||
+ | la vida es solo lo que se hace,\\ | ||
+ | no quiero nada con la muerte.\\ | ||
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+ | Si no pudimos ser unánimes\\ | ||
+ | moviendo tanto nuestras vidas\\ | ||
+ | tal vez no hacer nada una vez,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez un gran silencio pueda\\ | ||
+ | interrumpir esta tristeza,\\ | ||
+ | este no entendernos jamás\\ | ||
+ | y amenazarnos con la muerte,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez la tierra nos enseñe\\ | ||
+ | cuando todo parece muerto\\ | ||
+ | y luego todo estaba vivo.\\ | ||
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+ | Ahora contare hasta doce\\ | ||
+ | y tú te callas y me voy.\\ | ||
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+ | Keeping Quiet | ||
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+ | Now we will count to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and we will all keep still.\\ | ||
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+ | For once on the face of the earth,\\ | ||
+ | let's not speak in any language;\\ | ||
+ | let's stop for one second,\\ | ||
+ | and not move our arms so much.\\ | ||
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+ | It would be an exotic moment\\ | ||
+ | without rush, without engines;\\ | ||
+ | we would all be together\\ | ||
+ | in a sudden strangeness.\\ | ||
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+ | Fisherman in the cold sea\\ | ||
+ | would not harm whales\\ | ||
+ | and the man gathering salt\\ | ||
+ | would look at his hurt hands.\\ | ||
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+ | Those who prepare green wars,\\ | ||
+ | wars with gas, wars with fire,\\ | ||
+ | victories with no survivors, | ||
+ | would put on clean clothes\\ | ||
+ | and walk about with their brothers\\ | ||
+ | in the shade, doing nothing.\\ | ||
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+ | What I want should not be confused\\ | ||
+ | with total inactivity.\\ | ||
+ | Life is what it is about;\\ | ||
+ | I want no truck with death.\\ | ||
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+ | If we were not so single-minded\\ | ||
+ | about keeping our lives moving,\\ | ||
+ | and for once could do nothing,\\ | ||
+ | perhaps a huge silence\\ | ||
+ | might interrupt this sadness\\ | ||
+ | of never understanding ourselves\\ | ||
+ | and of threatening ourselves with death.\\ | ||
+ | Perhaps the earth can teach us\\ | ||
+ | as when everything seems dead\\ | ||
+ | and later proves to be alive.\\ | ||
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+ | Now I'll count up to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and you keep quiet and I will go.\\ | ||
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+ | —from Extravagaria |