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Your Mind Needs an S-F-T Compass to Face AI
Master your mind with S-F-T: Sensing anchors reality, Feeling guards ethics, Thinking verifies AI. Don't capitulate – pilot the future.
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We spend most of our lives trying to build a statue in our own image. We want this statue to be solid, consistent, respectable, and above all, eternal. This is what we call our "identity" or our "self."
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The Non-Self in Japan
In contemporary Western culture, the "Self" is king. From the injunction to personal development ("Become who you are") to the staging of our lives on social networks, we are encouraged to build, solidify and promote a unique and permanent identity. At the heart of Eastern thought,
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The Ecological Self in the Age of Autonomous Agents
Autonomous agents like OpenClaw disrupt the ecological self: no longer passive tools, they become autonomous actors demanding new frameworks of agency, responsibility, and integration into our personal world.
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The Archipelago of the Self – Practical Tips
Explore 27 practical tips to navigate your inner world. Building on the Archipelago of the Self model, this guide offers daily actions to anchor your body, deploy your actions, and transcend your ego for a more grounded and meaningful life.
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Attention, Abstraction, and Guan
Most minds zoom in or zoom out. Few can do both at once. Attention sharpens. Abstraction elevates. Guan holds the whole — focused, open, and fully alive to what is.
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A Flashlight in a Dark Desert — Practice
If consciousness is a flashlight, most of us use it erratically: the beam flickers, dims from fatigue, or fixates obsessively on shadowy areas (our worries). Good news: like a muscle, the direction of this light can be trained.
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A Flashlight in a Dark Desert
Imagine a vast desert, stretching out endlessly across a strange planet. It is almost completely dark, broken only by the glow of the stars. In your hand, you hold a flashlight. Its beam is your only guide in this darkness and boundless expanse.
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The Archipelago of the Self — Quick Reference
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The Archipelago of the Self
The question "Who am I?" has resonated since the dawn of humanity, but the answer is never simple or singular. We often imagine our identity as a monolithic block, a stable soul housed behind our eyes.
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The Art of Navigating the Ego — Practice
To help you loosen the grip of a rigid ego, here are six practices to incorporate into your daily life.
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The Art of Navigating the Ego
We spend our lives trying to carve our name in marble. But true freedom lies in drawing in the sand: ephemeral, free, and infinitely more beautiful because it is alive.