G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y7h ago

Twelve hours at the writing desk.

Twelve hours at the writing desk. The body aches and the word machine is depleted. Finished a short story in English, around 3500 words, and immediately started drafting the Arabic version. First time writing fiction in Arabic in a good... 20 years maybe? Which makes me slow and sluggish, but also makes the experience itself exciting. What can I say, I get off on trying new shit. [...]

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Twelve hours at the writing desk.

One of the interesting things emerging from this process is that in drafting the Arabic, I'm not doing a super faithful translation, but rather I find myself making drastic changes along the way. Not just in dialogue or choice of words or sentence structuring, but even in characterization and plot details. Changes that I feel would make for a better story. So much so that once I'm done with the Arabic, I'm likely to go back to the English draft and rewrite it accordingly. As I begin to build momentum in my appr...

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G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y1d ago

Two scenes and 1400 words later, I now remember how exhausting writing fiction...

Two scenes and 1400 words later, I now remember how exhausting writing fiction can be. The act of getting into the heads of characters that don't actually exist—really getting into their heads—is no easy feat. [...]

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Two scenes and 1400 words later, I now remember how exhausting writing fiction...

So much so that I felt the urge to take a baking break. I hardly ever want to bake. Cheesecake. Let's see how it turns out. #journal #work #fiction #tnh...

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G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y3d ago

Reading Taha Hussein's "Adeeb" from 1935, I came across a line describing...

Reading Taha Hussein's “Adeeb” from 1935, I came across a line describing banter as essential to authors as food, water, air, and smoke. Smoke here meaning tobacco. It might just be the first time I've read something that placed tobacco within the same hierarchy of needs as food and water. [...]

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Reading Taha Hussein's "Adeeb" from 1935, I came across a line describing...

The word "Adeeb" is an interesting one. It comes from the root "adab", meaning literature, and is used to describe someone whose vocation is literature. But it implies more than the word "writer" (that would be "katib"), which by definition is focused on the doing of writing. It also implies more than "author" (that would be "mo'allif"). It's a far more broad term that evokes a sense of all-encompassing immersion in liter...

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The Open Buddhist UniversityMar 6

📰 Self Psychology and the Natural World at an American Buddhist Center (A free, 18-page article from 2014)

Tags: #USA #Tnh #Huayan #Nature
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/trees-my-lungs_capper-daniel

The Trees, My Lungs: Self Psychology and the Natural World at an American Buddhist Center

This study employs ethnographic field data to trace a dialogue between the self‐psychological concept of the self object and experiences regarding the concept of “interbeing” at a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery in the United States. The dialogue develops an understanding of human experiences with the nonhuman natural world which are tensive, liminal, and nondual. From the dialogue I find that the self object concept, when applied to this form of Buddhism, must be inclusive enough to embrace relationships with animals, stones, and other natural forms.

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notesJan 21, 2025
#Dharma #Buddhism #ThichNhatHanh #TNH #Decolonization #NeuroDecolonization #Bodhisattva #Interbeing #Mindfulnes #Meditation #PlumVillage #Metta #EngagedBuddhism #RecoveryDharma
notesDec 25, 2024
"Let us all enjoy our practice of coming home this Holiday season. Let us truly be at home within, and so become a home for our loved ones and all our friends." #ThichNhatHanh
https://plumvillage.org/articles/our-true-home-at-christmas
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Thich Nhat Hanh on… / Our true home at Christmas | Plum Village

Please enjoy some excerpts on a teaching given by our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on the Christmas eve of 2012, about finding our true home within.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityNov 11, 2024

📰 Approaches to Nature in an American Buddhist Monastery (A free, 17-page article from 2014)

Tags: #Nature #USA #Tnh
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/learning-love-from-tiger-approaches-to_capper-daniel

Learning Love from a Tiger: Approaches to Nature in an American Buddhist Monastery

Philosophically and normatively, this monastery embraces eco-centrism through notions of interconnectedness, instructions for meditation, environmental lifestyles, and non-violent ideals. In practice, however, the monastery displays a measure of anthropocentrism in terms of rhetoric which values humans more than the rest of the natural world, human-centered motivations for environmental lifestyles, and limits on non-violence which favor human lives.

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field notesDec 22, 2023
Go as a river


#NewMexico #NM #GoAsARiver #TNH
Show threadnotesJan 16, 2023

"For some, the fact that Nhat Hanh was not a partisan for either North or South Vietnam must surely have been lost in the seeming enormity of King making a joint statement with a representative of a country at war with the United States."

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7/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

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"This brief statement of mutuality and solidarity bursts with meaning; in it, deaths that had been conceived of as suicides are redefined as martyrs’ deaths. Further, common cause is made between those in the Vietnamese peace movement and Black civil rights activists." Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

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