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Use Inconvenience to Discover Equanimity

Situations of inconvenience are terrific areas to discover, test, or develop your equanimity. How gracefully can you compromise in a negotiation? Does your mind remain balanced when you have to drive around the block three times to find a parking space? These inconveniences are opportunities to develop equanimity. Rather than shift the blame onto an institution, system, or person, one can develop the capacity to opt to rest within the experience of inconvenience.

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I went for a jog today to clear my mind, and I just can't help but let my thoughts run wild with me. Lessons on how to live and really enjoy life became apparent as I sweated out all the toxins and stress from the week behind. I thought I should share my simple revelations, though nothing new or ingenious, just to be able to reflect back on them when I catch myself not enjoying the moment or getting too caught up in work.

1. Establish a daily ritual. By that I don't mean waking up late and rushing to class :P. Reading the morning paper, jogging, yoga, or strumming guitar, to develop a comforting and familiar routine helps balance my schedule and the chaos of school and endless studio hours.

2. Don't ever feel sorry for yourself. Spend that energy doing something to make it better.

3. Set achievable goals. baby steps...whatever it is that you can see the end of the goal and the necessary steps to take to get there.

4. Take time out of each day to pause, reflect, breath, and just be yourself. Forget about everything, and just feel yourself being alive and what that means to you.

5. Make everything you do worthwhile. If you are going to do something, for damn sure, make it count, and be proud of it. Otherwise, what's the point?

6. "Forgetting yourself, escaping the bonds of ego, losing the subconscious, opening up to your fantasies and a spiritual realm, surrendering to a larger ethos, losing yourself in time, even stopping time, can all liberate even greater creativity." -Douglas Kelbaugh from "Seven Fallacies in Architectural Culture"

Feel free to add to this list...I need as much help as I can get to free my mind while at the same time focusing on my goals. Not an easy task in the least.
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I think energy is an important point- that we don't waste it on silly things because once its gone its gone. Living in the moment is so important and I feel like this past week I am finally starting to practice this idea of valuing every moment.

Some days its hard to be positive but really does it get us anywhere being negative? Then we just become a sink wholes for more negativity to fall. Let build a mountain of optimism where we can be safe from the possibility of being drowned in bad energy.

Another thing i am starting to encourage in myself is my independence. Believing that I can be the person I want to be and more, and its all part of my free will. No one else's. I think I was scared of this responsibility before. But how can you be scared of shaping your own life? Thats damn exciting!! It goes back to what you said about making everything you do worthwhile. I am realizing how fast time goes by otherwise.

That's my 2 cents for today. Thanks for sharing! I think this is great =p

sitting at the Hawthorne theater. ordered nice whiskey on the rock cus there was an all American folk band playing. however they didnt tell me it was their last song. some good older folk that packed up so quick i had to draw a couch.

next: the dream i had: like a stop-motion flip book/film. i got really excited about doing story board narratives.

next assignment .... can you guess?
i want a narrative, or more than one. a dreaM or your building or progression of shapes? go!

architecture as a medium for lighting & interaction

So I saw some awesome artists speak last weekend at PSU's Illuminated City Symposium, and they were all really inspiring. Some of the highlights include Urban Screen's "insektion," where ants eat the leafy facade of a building, and "pinwall", which would be a ton of fun to play on a building scale. Check out the videos at http://www.urbanscreen.com/!

Ali Momenti from MAW had some amazing collaborative installations that redefine graffiti and interactive art while of course promoting the bike culture. I was secretly hoping he would light bomb Portland that night but he was without his crew and equipment.... (http://themaw.org/)

This pic is from Spitball Media's installation in the lecture hall for pecha kucha and was pretty mesmerizing. I really needed that boost of inspiration from being slammed in studio...