40 days of doing NOTHING: an experiment
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What if…
Our vision & mission…
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+250 Students – Doing Nothing
Nice attitude. Universities become factories for producing “knowledge”, “products”, “applicability” in favour of a economical approach of short-sighted efficiency and measurable “relevance”. Is all knowledge immediately good for something? Are knowledge workers, like creative workers bound to the yoke of efficiency and “usefulness”? A lot of nobel prizes would not have been achieved and flourished…
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Little ABC
In short and concise form, this is what you need to start your adventure of Doing Nothing. Share and make people happy! 😉
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National DO NOTHING Day
The USA got invited to celebrate the 16th of January as a particular holiday day since 1973 – the acclaimed anti-holiday “National Do NOTHING Day”. A journalist called Harold Puffman Coffin (yes, Coffin! 🙂 ) suggested and executed this day in his life to celebrate WITHOUT having to do anything for it – no turkey,…
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Why Killing Time Isn’t a Sin
Renowed blogger of zenhabits.net and ambassador for a calmer and more mindful style of life, Leo Babauta, is reminding us that killing time may be rather a bliss than a deadly sin. You do not “kill”, you make space for life, living – not productivity. A classic. Read full post for practical contemplation at: zenhabits.net/kill-time/
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Time to muse
Time to muse. We all agree. Nice and inspiring project & photos by Halea Isabelle Kala. www.timetomuse.com
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Black holes are not nothing
Black holes are not nothing…they are at least black, in a very singular way. Below the text to the performance watched outside of DN on DAY 10 raised cosmologigical dimension of nothing. Thanks for that inspiration – check out the artists, one who did try to look through a tube and a window at the…
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Wu 150kg
Chinese wu (traditional Chinese: 無; simplified Chinese: 无) meaning “not have; without” is a keyword in Buddhism, especially the Chan and Zen traditions. The Chinese word wu 無 “not; nothing” was borrowed by East Asian Languages, particularly the Sino-Xenic “CJKV” languages of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Some English translation equivalents of wu or (Japanese)…
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There is an art to relaxing
“Boredom, I would argue, is a key component of relaxation. Component to functional relaxation is the ability to rest your mind until it is slack, which the resting state of boredom. This is why people who need vacation so often seek out places where they can lay, do nothing, and often drink heavily. They want…
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DAY 40
M indfulness meets momentary happiness of being there – in this life. HK Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge] How long did you do nothing today? [badge]2h / per 2h[/badge] Answers HK [collapsibles] [collapse title=”How did you do nothing today?” state=”active”] Walked along the river 30min. Sat in a church for 1,5h. [/collapse] [collapse…
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