Andy Wimbush
@andywimbush.bsky.social
Author of Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism
Moby-Dick enthusiast
Novel in the works
Literature, philosophy, Buddhadharma 🌱
Teaches at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Moby-Dick enthusiast
Novel in the works
Literature, philosophy, Buddhadharma 🌱
Teaches at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Reposted by Andy Wimbush
"Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And swim like a dolphin. But all those 'biggee' tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream 'diversity hire.'"
I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t For These DEI Hires
You know, I wouldn’t say this to just anyone. I’m not one to gam and gossip around the old grog-cooler. But I know you’re a good New England boy wo...
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And swim like a dolphin. But all those 'biggee' tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream 'diversity hire.'"
January 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is a fabulous article by @oshan.bsky.social on the mechanisms operating at the deeper end of the meditative pool. A wonderful reminder that there's more to this project than simply stress reduction.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
How meditation deconstructs your mind
Want to learn how to meditate? Scientists have a new theory that might change how you practice.
www.vox.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a fabulous article by @oshan.bsky.social on the mechanisms operating at the deeper end of the meditative pool. A wonderful reminder that there's more to this project than simply stress reduction.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Reposted by Andy Wimbush
FYI: Mosfilm's YouTube page features a playlist containing free, restored versions of *all* of Andrey Tarkovsky's films:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Movies directed by Andrey Tarkovsky - YouTube
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:11 PM
FYI: Mosfilm's YouTube page features a playlist containing free, restored versions of *all* of Andrey Tarkovsky's films:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Buddhist: The cup is empty of cupness
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Buddhist: The cup is empty of cupness
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Henri Bergson: we must wait for the sugar to melt in the cup
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Henri Bergson: we must wait for the sugar to melt in the cup
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cat: the cup is now on the floor
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cat: the cup is now on the floor
November 24, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Buddhist: The cup is empty of cupness
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Buddhist: The cup is empty of cupness
"The doctrine of the will has been invented essentially to justify punishment through the assigning of guilt. [...] Men were considered 'free' only so that they might be considered guilty."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
"The doctrine of the will has been invented essentially to justify punishment through the assigning of guilt. [...] Men were considered 'free' only so that they might be considered guilty."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
I took this photo in Somiedo Natural Park, in Spain, in 2017.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I took this photo in Somiedo Natural Park, in Spain, in 2017.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
It seems an appropriate welcome gift to all X-iles to Bluesky 🦋
I'm a Beckett scholar by training and usually post about literature, contemplative philosophy (mostly Buddhist and Daoist), and meditation.
"[An atheist mystic finds] the idea of God, in spite of all its fanciful extravagances, to be not the unsettling of that world of the given, but precisely its firmest anchor, rooted at its perspectival vanishing point."
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
November 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM
"[An atheist mystic finds] the idea of God, in spite of all its fanciful extravagances, to be not the unsettling of that world of the given, but precisely its firmest anchor, rooted at its perspectival vanishing point."
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
Zhuangzi's case for leaving Twitter/X:
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Zhuangzi's case for leaving Twitter/X:
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
"When the springs dry up, the fish have to cluster together on the shore, gasping on each other to keep damp and spitting on each other to stay wet. But that is no match for forgetting all about one another in the rivers and the lakes...
6 authors I love:
Olga Tokarczuk
Samuel Beckett
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Meiko Kawakami
Herman Melville
Claire Louise Bennett
Olga Tokarczuk
Samuel Beckett
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Meiko Kawakami
Herman Melville
Claire Louise Bennett
November 14, 2024 at 7:07 AM
6 authors I love:
Olga Tokarczuk
Samuel Beckett
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Meiko Kawakami
Herman Melville
Claire Louise Bennett
Olga Tokarczuk
Samuel Beckett
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Meiko Kawakami
Herman Melville
Claire Louise Bennett
Once again - yet again - thinking about this Langston Hughes poem
November 6, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Once again - yet again - thinking about this Langston Hughes poem
It seems the US has gone with the "dead whale or a stove boat" option - or, in other words, the stove boat option.
November 6, 2024 at 8:28 AM
It seems the US has gone with the "dead whale or a stove boat" option - or, in other words, the stove boat option.
'Every religion begins with someone saying, "Or *this* instead." What we really want is the "or... instead." What we end up with, though, is usually just the "instead" without the "or" - or worse, just the "this".'
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
November 4, 2024 at 7:09 PM
'Every religion begins with someone saying, "Or *this* instead." What we really want is the "or... instead." What we end up with, though, is usually just the "instead" without the "or" - or worse, just the "this".'
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism
- Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism