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These you might want to click on
Sasha Chapin with a great little interview of Zen teacher Henry Shukman on the curriculum after koan training (mindfulness, support, absorption, awakening) and Shukman’s COVID-era head injury weakening his cognitive capacity and opening his heart: “when there’s no resistance to heartbreak, it’s actually not a problem. It becomes indistinguishable from just an open heart.” It goes without saying that Chapin’s writing is a gem, and my contribution is only linking to his older stuff which you maybe missed or forgot about. A Little Drop of Sweet Surrender (a conversation with Henry Shukman) — Sasha Chapin
Jared Henderson’s curated list of free philosophy lecture series on YouTube — Dreyfus on Heidegger, Kagan on death, Sandel on justice, Brandom on Frege, Sadler’s paragraph-by-paragraph Hegel. Sometimes I watch these imagining David Chapman chastising me for indulging in philosophy. Guilty pleasure. The Best Philosophy Lectures on YouTube — Jared Henderson
Mi’sen (another spiritual practitioner with a culinary passion) on Lyon as a “power place” in French cooking, the Mothers of Lyon, and a chicken-in-vinegar recipe sitting between Alain Chapel and Simon Hopkinson — plus the historical claim that French cooks were the ones who saved post-war British food culture in the 60s–80s. Despite a number of visits to France, I haven’t been to Lyon yet, which is criminal. Lyon: t’art & soul — Mi’sen