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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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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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DAY 39
N ot all doing nothing is really nothing, but simple busyness of the mind. HK Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge] How long did you do nothing today? [badge]30min / per 30min[/badge] Answers HK [collapsibles] [collapse title=”How did you do nothing today?” state=”active”] Created a hot bath for me, lying in there, soaking and…