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#Nāgārjuna's #Madhyamaka #philosophy articulates #śūnyatā (#emptiness) and the two truths, dismantling the notion of intrinsic essence and affirming the interdependent, provisional nature of all phenomena. This insight avoids both #nihilism and #essentialism, shaping #Mahāyāna and #Zen thought. In this post, I summed up the key aspects of this profound teaching and its implications for #Buddhist practice:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-sunyata_and_two_truths/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

A simile from the Pāli scriptures (SN 22.95) compares form and feelings with foam and bubbles. This simile is often used to illustrate the central insight of Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka philosophy: that all phenomena lack intrinsic essence (svabhāva) and arise dependently through causes and conditions. Like the bubbles, they appear, persist briefly, and dissolve — neither entirely real nor entirely unreal. This captures the meaning of śūnyatā (emptiness) and the function of the two truths in navigating conventional appearances without reifying them. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC BY-SA 2.5) (modified)

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the self-help book. Where some people weaponize it against desperate people (see: The Joy of Missing Out), constantly asking you for your information, attention, or money, some people are more interested in putting out the information and that’s about where it stops.

Enter Greg McKeown and Essentialism.

This is a philosophy book (or it would be if it was older. For now we’ll have to call it self-help) and it never asks you for your information. No email lists to sign up for, no websites to visit, no social media accounts to follow. Nothing more than this book - a book with all the information anyone would need to help them…

To help them…

Hm.

I have to be careful with describing this because essentialism (a legitimate thing) sounds an awful lot like minimalism (which is a racket).

It is the reduction of noise in your life. It is the hard truth that you can’t please everyone and you shouldn’t try. That specializing in things might actually be a good thing.

That saying NO might be a good thing.

Even at work.

This is one of my favorite parts because self-help books are always like “tired at work? Take a nap!” as if you wouldn’t get your ass fired. McKeown recognizes this and uses his own examples.

It’s good.

Real good.

I work with a lot of people who slip into workaholism. I was a workaholic myself. It took a lot of work to break that and I’m better for it. This book definitely helped on that journey.

Nothing is going to make us super enthusiastic about the machinations of life destroying everything we hold dear in the pursuit of money but we CAN mitigate the effects a bit and this book has some great tips on how to do it.

And it’s a HELL of a lot better than anything that woman who wrote the Joy of Missing Out ever wrote.

#books #bookrecommendation #booktok #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksky #readersofpixelfed #read #readinglog #essentialism #gregmckeown #philosophy #philosophybook

It's not about #Minimalism, it's about #Essentialism. This video gets to the heart of the matter.

#Design #ProductDesign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc5nXAu1WY4

Adopted and donor-conceived children were way less likely to confound nature and nurture than traditionally-conceived kids (ages 4 to 8).

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 And this difference wasn’t explained by differences in parents.

📄 Here's the free preprint (otherwise paywalled in Developmental Psychology): https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3e8rj

#parenting #psychScience #childDevelopment #genetics #Adoption #IVF #donorConception #essentialism #xPhi #philMind #philSci

Figure 2. Children’s genetic essentialism scores as a function of conception history (ADC/TC) and age (4-8 years). Shaded regions represent ±1 SE.Note that the interaction between age and conception history did not reach significance.

Figure 3. Probability of genetic-essentialist responses as a function of trial type and age (4-8 years), among ADC children (left panel) and TC children (right panel).

"Johnson says that this affinity for the sex “woman” arose out of the work that her mother did to help people live, to allow her, the young Johnson, and her siblings, et cetera, to live. And what we call “femininity” in a political sense is that legacy—that history of life-making. We have to understand this history in this way. We have to understand these movements that I’ve listed as the substance of feminism. Which is to say that the goal of something called “feminism” is to generalize these conditions as daily life, not to escape them: to make everybody collectively responsible for the kinds of provision that Johnson’s mother produced."—Emma Heaney

On the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie >

https://pinko.online/web/on-the-cisness-of-the-bourgeoisie

#interview #Emma_Heaney #feminism #cisness #political_economy #motherhood #women #Marsha_P_Johnson #autonomy #feminity #Sophie_Lewis #unmediated_by_men #Cathy_Cohen #essentialism #womanhood #labour_split #social_relations #solidarity #femmephobia #whorephobia #reproductive_labour #penetrability #subordination #patriarchy #sexual_violence #social_value

Dare I ask to anyone using words like "the female me", or "the male me"; if there ever was any "male me/female me" after all? Wasn't the "female me" or "male me" only performed so to feel safer in a genital-essentialist, body-fascist, society instead?
And there were no me there to exist.

#reflection #bodyfascism #gonadalsex #essentialism

Esercizi di stile - N.004
 Exercises in style - No.004

Pochi tratti per esercitare l'occhio e la mano a definire attraverso gli elementi essenziali tipi umani e ambientazioni. 

A few strokes to practice the eye and hand in defining human types and environments through essential elements.

  #sketch #urbansketch #quicksketch #inkdrawing #redandblack #girlportrait #metropolis #citylife #minimalart #essentialism #drawdaily #dailyart #sketchbook #artcommunity #artistic_nation #artdiscover #creativeprocess #artofvisuals #Kuiry #FrancescoGaggia

Esercizi di stile - N.004 - Una ragazza con un calice in mano in un abito rosso e nero. Un disco rosso sullo sfondo.

Esercizi di stile - N.003 
Exercises in style - No.003  

Pochi tratti per esercitare l'occhio e la mano a definire attraverso gli elementi essenziali tipi umani e ambientazioni.  

A few strokes to practice the eye and hand in defining human types and environments through essential elements.

  #sketch #flowersketch #quicksketch #inkdrawing #redandblack #girlportrait #vintage #vintagefashion #minimalart #essentialism #sketchbook #artcommunity #artdiscover #creativeprocess #artofvisuals #Kuiry #FrancescoGaggia

Esercizi di stile - N.003  _ Figura femminile in bianco e nero su sfondo rosso a fiori.

Esercizi di stile - N.002
Exercises in style - No.002

Pochi tratti per esercitare l'occhio e la mano a definire attraverso gli elementi essenziali tipi umani e ambientazioni.

A few strokes to practice the eye and hand in defining human types and environments through essential elements.

#sketch #urbansketch #quicksketch #inkdrawing #redandblack #girlportrait #minimalart #essentialism #artoftheday #drawdaily #dailyart #sketchbook #artdiscover #creativeprocess #artofvisuals #flowers #Kuiry #FrancescoGaggia

Esercizi di stile - N.002 - Una ragazza con taglio di capelli corti, collana di coralli e sfondo a fiori.

Esercizi di stile - N.001
Exercises in style - No.001

Pochi tratti per esercitare l'occhio e la mano a definire attraverso gli elementi essenziali tipi umani e ambientazioni.

A few strokes to practice the eye and hand in defining human types and environments through essential elements.

#sketch #urbansketch #ink #inkdrawing #redandblack #girl #citylife #minimalart #essentialism #contemporaryart #figurativeart #drawdaily #dailyart #sketchbook #artcommunity #artdiscover #creativeprocess #artofvisuals #Kuiry #FrancescoGaggia

Essentialism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

#Essentialism

Jenny Blake on being agile amidst life's challenges:

#Career #Essentialism #AntiUnhappiness

One of the keys to being agile in life is knowing how to quickly find your way back to equilibrium. It is difficult, if not impossible, to pivot from a place of anxiety or unhappiness. Your ability to proceed with the next Pivot stages will be severely hampered if you are weighed down by people, habits, an environment, or activities that drain you.

New research reveals the double-edged effects of essentialist beliefs on political bias https://www.psypost.org/new-research-reveals-the-double-edged-effects-of-essentialist-beliefs-on-political-bias/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PoliticalBias #Essentialism #PartisanPrejudice #PoliticalResearch #BeliefSystems

Essentialism really is a very shitty way of conceptualizing reality.

#philosophy #essentialism

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1188

"Essentialism is the lay assumption that categories of living things have underlying, unobservable “essences”. When applied to sex and gender, this assumption has a range of negative consequences, including stereotyping & discrimination."
#essentialism #biologytextbooks
#sexessentialism

how does a human have to look and behave for you to recognize their humanity?
#selfreflectonyouranswer #rhetorical #essentialism #sexism #racism #ableism #ageism

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown, 2014

Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#SelfHelp
#essentialism

“A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam Grant
Have you ever:
• found yourself stretched too thin?
• simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized?
• felt busy but not productive?
• felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

“It's more important than ever to take steps to declutter your thoughts and quiet your mind, whether through meditation, journaling, or simply taking a few moments to breathe deeply and center yourself”

— @mako

Thanks for the reminder Mako. That said, now I’m going to close the app and write on my journal 😜

See ya in a while!!

#essentialism #Signal #leadership