Wednesday, March 01, 2006

 

Day 28 - microTransformative manifesto


This is true nanotechnology. The world's most powerful esoteric behaviors, cut down and condensed, strung together like pixellated beads, poured like fuel into our daily existence. Practice is a misnomer, for to practice something means you're not quite playing in the big game: this is Integral Life Living, and it occurs in bits and gasps and shockingly effective micromodules of high-energy practice.

Take weight lifting: seriously, take it. With a world on fire, have we 2 extra hours to spare at the gym kissing our biceps? A haughty transpersonal laugh greets such an archaic notion. Instead, pick one exercise. Pick push-ups, or pull-ups or Hindu squats. Pick it, and do it to exhaustion. That's it. Now... back to work!

Consider the metaphor of our productivity aids: our desktop software, our Google, our (MS) Word. These were impossible memory-hogs but a decade ago, using A.I. and design solutions barely imagined. Yet now: crucial. The same goes for ILP practices: picture them as desktop icons, each triggering a powerful 21st-century application of integral theory, something impossible to even consider 10 years ago. The 3-2-1 Process: a power-cannon expression of pure Freudianism. Big Mind: voice dialogue x Zen pointing-out instructions = democratized satori. Focused Intensity Training: what demons do to get in shape for world domination.


Do you know what creates the complex-beautiful imagery dancing across your tv screen? I assure you it is not 6-day meditation retreats: it's modular pixels, tiny bits of meaningless info-matter which, when sequenced properly, can show you the biography of Mother Theresa, the impossible backflips of an Olympic freestyle skier, the heartbreaking dramaturgy of humanity's most gripping police stories. Simple squares, composed of three striped lights: red, blue, green. From these, infinite rainbows spring forth.

Put the "big punch" capacity of microelectronics onto your meditation cushion. Use the power-law principle, go 80/20, flip the Bell Curve and dare to be a behavioral elitist.

We simply don't have time for anything else.

Comments:
"Instead, pick one exercise. Pick push-ups, or pull-ups or Hindu squats. Pick it, and do it to exhaustion."

You'd look pretty silly with a monster chest and atrophied legs or tree-trunk legs and toothpick arms. Then everybody would laugh at you behind your back and you wouldn't have any influence in the world ;)
 
dude, of course i'm not saying just do ONE exercise, ever. the kit advises this for very busy people: each day, do a different muscle group. it's better than nothing. word.
 
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