#right livelihood

[tylynnthe-internetkween]

Bell hooks said the elderly people in her family emphasized “Work that makes life sweet”. She then went onto say that if you are doing what you love then you will feel fulfilled and happy to work. Hell, you wouldn’t even see what you are doing as “work”.

I love that philosophy and I want that for me. I want to work a job that will bring me satisfaction and fulfillment …bell hooks says work stress can spill over into your life and I don’t want to be nasty or mean to my loved ones because I am unhappy at work.

My wish for everyone in this world is to find “work that makes life sweet”.

[protoslacker]

The ancient peasant farmers who fashioned this forest garden system continued to hunt wild game and harvest wild foods, just as their descendants in Tuscany do today. The culture and cuisine of Tuscany - from truffle hunting to winemaking - is part of a 30,000-year-old unbroken tradition and relationship with the land. The elegance and near-perfection of these temperate forest gardens is shown in how they have thrived for millennia on some of the most contested land in Europe, surviving climate change, war, pestilence, drought, and economic upheaval.

Max Paschall at Shelterwood Forest Farm. The Lost Forest Gardens of Europe

[wishfulmanifestations]

What is Dharma & what does it signify?

Remember these Four Noble Truths:

1. Anguish is everywhere.

2. We desire permanent existence of ourselves and for our loved ones, and we desire to prove ourselves independent of others and superior to them. These desires conflict with the way things are: nothing abides, and everything and everyone depends upon everything and everyone else. This conflict causes our anguish, and we project this anguish on those we meet.

3. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can.

4. This acknowledgement and resolve are realized by following the Eight fold Path: Right Views, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Recollection, and Right Meditation. Here "Right" means "correct" or "accurate" -- in keeping with the reality of impermanence and interdependence.”

[beingdreeyore]

“How do you use meditation in your relationship?” I asked an old friend in Boston, a longtime Zen student named Richard, many years ago, before his untimely early death from myeloma, when he was one of the only married people I knew.

“By letting go even when you know you are right.”

Mark Epstein - Advice Not Given: A guide to getting over yourself

Advice I wish I had taken.

[protoslacker]

Over the four days I interviewed Tanya, I kept circling back to the question of home, pestering her several times for a definition, which I never really got. But given the cascading social and ecological crises of the modern world—especially the affluent industrial world, especially the United States—it’s a crucial question. Our society is out of touch and out of balance, and needs to find a way home. We need to know what meaningful, sustainable home looks like. I asked other people, and granddaughter Virginia’s definition of home seems a gentle place to stop the search. “It’s a safe place,” she says, “where people are good to one another.”

Robert Jensen in Yes! Magazine. The Woman Beside Wendell Berry: The Most Important Fiction Editor Almost No One Has Heard Of Tanya Berry challenges our assumptions about women’s work and small-town living.

[essickmango]

Answer the pretender, fifth of December

So having been to a talk by Audrey Tang yesterday (look her up if you never heard about her), I'd like to share some interesting points:

Human-in-the-loop does sound like it could make us end up in a hamster wheel of ever faster turning (or churning) AI. What makes a lot more sense is AI-in-the-human-loop (where the AI is used to facilitate the human processes).

Do not delegate what you cannot delegate. It make as little sense for a robot to go to a gym as it does for AI to replace civic processes among humans, like for example care or government processes.

Prevent digital colonialism and nationalism. They promote polarisation and imprison you. Build bridges (between platforms and people) so we don't imprison ourselves. If necessary, force companies to comply by throtteling their connection (it's not censorship if it just becomes slow).

Find the uncommon ground. People agree on way more than you'd think, so figuring out where they (unexpectedly) agree can help a lot to build solutions that accept the lines of disagreement and still work.

In short:

The singularity may be near, but the plurality is here.

(Audrey Tang if it wasn't already clear)

[atsvensson]

Forensic Architecture - fick pris för brottsutredningsmetoder

Right Livelihood Award 2024 till Forensic Architecture. Det är en banbrytande forskargrupp som ägnar sig åt att avslöja och dokumentera sanningen om brott mot miljömässiga och mänskliga rättigheter. Det sker med hjälp av banbrytande tekniker med öppen källkod och digital modellering. Organisationen är baserad vid Goldsmiths, University of London. De använder avancerad teknik, vittnesmål och…

[protoslacker]

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

In the past I’ve been so delighted to puruse the stories of MacArthur Fellows when they are announced.  But this year I felt so tired, when I read the list I didn’t feel a burning curiosity about whe these people are and what they do.   I suspect many of us nowadays feel our skin is thin. I wondered why I felt the need to steel myself in order to find out more when when I’ve always enjoyed finding out more about the new class of MacArthur Fellows?

I’m not sure, it’s so hard to understand myself at times.I did eventually go to see. I took much joy in watching the short videos of the MacArthur Fellows introducing themselves and their work. The work is hard,  perhaps that’s what I was remembering in my hesitancy  and forgetting all the joy in creating good work.