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The Machine and the MalaSample
Sample episode — the two halves of the m0nk character, and whether a contemplative practice survives contact with an always-on world.
Podcast
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Sample episode — the two halves of the m0nk character, and whether a contemplative practice survives contact with an always-on world.
Sample episode — a walk through a single round of japa, start to finish, and what the count is actually for.
Sample episode — on what happens to attention when the feed stops, and why a repeated name is the oldest technology for holding it.
The subject
The m0nk character exists to hold two things at once: a renunciate and a hacker, in a world run by machines. The talks are where that gets argued out loud rather than drawn.
The through-line is attention — what a contemplative practice built in sixteenth-century Bengal has to say about a mind that is now interrupted a few hundred times a day. The tradition's own claim is unfashionably blunt: that attention is trainable, that repetition is how you train it, and that a thing repeated with the whole of your attention stops being repetitive. A feed is engineered on exactly the opposite premise.
Neither side of that gets to win in advance. It is worth the argument, which is what a talk is for.