{"id":5518,"date":"2012-01-26T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2012-01-26T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:48:42","slug":"in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2012\/01\/26\/in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"In a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzen Young lays it all out:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciEbP0_I064?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He has also started <a href=\"http:\/\/shinzenyoung.blogspot.com\/\">blogging<\/a> (to add to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicmindfulness.org\/\">other<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/expandcontract\">online<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ShinzenInterviews\">presences<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As I&#8217;ve mentioned in this space <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/12\/07\/subjectivity-impermanence-dark-flow\/\">a few<\/a> times <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/05\/30\/what-a-bodymind-can-do-part-1\/\">before<\/a>, I&#8217;ve learned a lot from him, especially about the relationship between a process-relational metaphysics (which is how I would describe Shinzen&#8217;s Buddhism) and the intimate bits of detail that make up the fabric of our experience.<\/p>\n<p>Note, for instance, how this account of arising and vanishing resonates with Whitehead&#8217;s description of the percolation of actual occasions that constitutes the universe.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_0dWhDzNPU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinzen Young lays it all out: He has also started blogging (to add to his other\u00a0 online\u00a0 presences).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977,691847],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","category-religion-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1r0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11300,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2020\/12\/10\/buddscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":5518,"position":0},"title":"Buddscape","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Harold Budd's passing yesterday (from coronavirus complications) has inspired me to create a multichannel chamber of his music, which you can enter into and wander around in by clicking on the tabs below. 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