[antifragile 4 🔥 - philosophy cleanse 🍃] Musashi, Dogen, Pirsig, Watts
#35: a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind.
I never got sick…until I started having a toddler with the flu sneezing directly into my open mouth 😮. And so I write to you today (finally) recovering after nearly a week of sick parenting a sick toddler. Which, as you elder parents know well, is akin to the Fifth Circle of Hell ☠️.
The best part of being sick, though? The glow life has in the week after you recover. When you have a newfound appreciation for each moment you don’t feel like 💩. I’m not quite there just yet…but looking forward to it 🌞
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Welcome to the 35th edition of the antifragile 4 🔥.
It’s a weekly 4-item newsletter created to inspire dads to use the challenges of fatherhood as fuel for building an incredible life & an antifragile mind. Some weeks will have a theme, others will meander. Expect it every Friday.
This week we keep it short, with a philosophy cleanse 🍃 of four quotes for you to ponder. I keep my commentary to a minimum. Hopefully you’ll make them your own.
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Here is this week’s antifragile 4 🔥 - philosophy cleanse edition 🍃:
Myamoto Musashi ⚔️ on knowing
Dogen 🧘🏽♂️ on enlightened doing
Robert Pirsig 🏍️ on finding Buddha
Alan Watts 🛝 on play
+ AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨
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1.) Myamoto Musashi ⚔️ on knowing
From one thing, know ten thousand things.
Myamoto Musashi: The Book of Five Rings
Deep commitment and understanding in one area, bears fruit across your life.
2.) Dogen 🧘🏽♂️ on enlightened doing
Ichigyō-zanmai (one-practice samadhi): The way you engage in one activity reveals your entire approach to life.
Dogen, Founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan
OG of the phrase “how you do anything, is how you do everything”. Do one thing well and it will translate.
3.) Robert Pirsig 🏍️ on God.
The Buddha, [or] God, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha—which is to demean oneself.
Robert Pirsig, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
God, beauty, magic - whatever you want to call it - can be found anywhere, at any time. Not only in the places it’s “supposed” to be found.
4.) Alan Watts 🛝 on play.
This is the real secret of life— to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan Watts
AI Image of the Week 🤖 🎨
philosophy pallet cleanse
Two last things for you this week:
Find God, beauty or magic somewhere you might not expect.
Be fire and wish for the wind 🔥
With love,
Chris
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