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Flow: when action and awareness merge in the absence of spare attention that might allow objects beyond the immediate interaction to enter awareness.
This happens most in dance, in sport, in chess, in creating art. Could it also happen in appreciating art? In appreciating beauty? Are these things challenging enough to push away the external distractions that might sap away some attention? Is it possible to become one with beauty for more than a fleeting moment? What is the relationship of Flow and the experience of Zen or kenshÅ or satori?
Oh, it looks like there is a book that might answer some of these questions: The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly.
It is also addressed in other works.
This happens most in dance, in sport, in chess, in creating art. Could it also happen in appreciating art? In appreciating beauty? Are these things challenging enough to push away the external distractions that might sap away some attention? Is it possible to become one with beauty for more than a fleeting moment? What is the relationship of Flow and the experience of Zen or kenshÅ or satori?
Oh, it looks like there is a book that might answer some of these questions: The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly. It is also addressed in other works.
When you're not dominated by feelings of separateness from what you're working on, then you can be said to 'care' about what you're doing. That is what caring really is: 'a feeling of identification with what one's doing.' When one has this feeling then you also see the inverse side of caring, quality itself.Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
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Have you heard David Collins talk about this?
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Asterisk 8, 5:15 PM
Asterisk 8, 5:15 PM
