Is There an App for Happiness?

Last updated on: May 3, 2010 at 3:54 pm by David Charles

Is There an App for Happiness? 2010-05-03T15:54:39-06:00 David Charles

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How to balance mindfulness and technology?

Check out the recent Buddhist Geeks podcast, where guest Soren Gordhamer discusses this question. Soren is an author, speaker, and project director for Richard Gere’s charity, Healing the Divide.

“I think that for those of who are trying to balance this life of mindfulness and technology, it’s extremely important to have some time where we’re not taking in information and we’re bringing attention to our breath and our internal world. And we’re not as focused on our external world. But then the challenge, of course, is to not become a good meditator. The challenge is to become awake, right? And to bring that sense of awareness and full engagement no matter what we’re doing. And if we’re checking email, can we do that fully? If we’re tweeting, can we do that fully? Whatever it is, can we bring our full attention to that? And that whatever we imagine our life is going to be in the next moment, we never know. We don’t even know what the next five seconds is going to be like, much less the next day. And I think that if we can use or engage with technology that’s fully engaged in the moment, I think then technology can be something that we use rather than something that uses us. And I think for millions of people in our culture right now, technology actually feels like something that uses them rather than something they kind of creatively engage with.”

The full podcast and transcript can be found here.

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