Andy Wimbush
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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
He also really, really cared about all the students he'd never get to meet: people like yourself who are discovering him after his death. He felt those people were his students and he was speaking to them and for them.
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I always felt he was rooting for me - even when I was banging my head against the proverbial wall. He was genuinely interested in every student, and would quickly pick up people's names and make them feel seen. He always spoke from a place of experience, but also encouraged me to see for myself.
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ah, there's so much I could say! He was enormously generous with his time and energy, and was as devoted to being a teacher as he was to being an explorer and trailblazer. He had such warmth, playfulness and humour, but also a serious commitment to integrity and a fearless curiosity about things.
January 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One of my meditation teachers, Leigh Brasington, recommended using the following phrase for mettā practice behind the wheel (or on the saddle): "May you be happy! May you get to your destination safely! May you learn to drive!"
January 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Have you come across the work of Rob Burbea yet? He was my teacher - not well-known before he died in 2020, but increasingly becoming popular with online meditation nerds. The "fading of perception" was the cornerstone of Rob's approach to insight. hermesamara.org/teachings/em...
Emptiness - Hermes Amāra Foundation
hermesamara.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Love Calvino!
December 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Samuel Beckett - Company
Elizabeth Bishop - "In the Waiting Room"
Sue Hamilton - Early Buddhism: The "I" of the Beholder
Mark Johnston - Surviving Death (particularly Chapter 4 - "What is found at the center?")
Douglas Harding - On Having no Head
December 26, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Excellent. I cannot recommend the Huntingdon highly enough. It's not just about death either: it's about liberation.
December 9, 2024 at 3:19 PM
I recently got the big red Princeton complete works and would like to start on the Ethics. Have you found any helpful guides to read alongside it?
November 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
The only right answer
November 23, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Apparently, it's a sign of dementia risk. Doesn't bode well for us Beckettians.
November 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Rather than praising Yao [the ancient Chinese stereotype of saintliness; think: Gandhi] and condemning Jie [the stereotype of evil; think: Hitler], we'd be better off forgetting them both and transforming along our Way."

(trans. Brook Ziporyn)
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 AM