Meditation 2

This is the 4th day of my meditation experiment. I got a book by Tobin Blake that teaches meditation in 30 days. I don't think I can learn it within 30 days but maybe I can get an idea. I try to meditate 5 minutes in the morning and in the evening with the kneeling meditation position. Yesterday's lesson was forgiving someone which i found very difficult and even a bit ridiculous. I'm not sure if it really worked but at least I tried to see things from a different view. I also made this picture because I enjoy looking at symmetrical shapes. It was inspired by the hungarian Matyo embroidery my mother used to make.

Oh the running made!

I thought maybe there is an easy way to create a haiku. And because I read a lot about artifical intelligence, I searched for some haiku generators, a kind of artificial poets. Actually i expected something like i add a word and a program generates me a haiku. But most of the generators I found didn't have this option. Here is a choice of my generated Haikus:

energy purrs, door
meanders, adolescent
flying sallow hand
Everypoet
most of the haikus generated with everypoet are rather dark, but I found them best

Oh the running made!
fie! ouch! weaving sweeping shoe.
Alice hunts quickly
Randomhaiku
after clicking through some of randomhaikus I noticed that the vocabulary is not that big

Rain breaks then snow sets.
Hail works but a flower talks.
Old fish diminish.
Peter's Haiku Generator
Peter's Haiku generator probably hasn't been updated for a while. I could only use the standart vocabulary but there are others like erotic and noir

practice and patience
the leopard speaks welcome to
the shin tao blog thanks
memes.angrygoats
This is interesting. You can have haikus produced out of recent blog entries. Hmhm...if only we had more entries...

oh and btw, if you wonder why my texture in the picture is checkered, try the browser-based SL Movablelife

Meditation

I don't know much about Asian culture and philosophy. Some days ago i read that meditation is one way to clean your mind (I have many troubling thoughts and I would like to not to think about anything for a while)
Then I asked Dante how to do it and he told Defifee to sit in a meditation pose, close my eyes and shh away thoughts that pass by. I have always wondered if people really meditate with their avatar on a poseball. Well it didn't work for me. There is always something to think of, even if I think 'now I'm not thinking' .. But I'm trying it offline everyday for about 10 mintues now. Probably it takes a lot of practice and patience.

The Leopard Speaks

Welcome to the Shin Tao blog. Thanks to Defifee Fizir {the cute kitten on the right} for all of her help in getting this blog going. Tune in here for more info about the Shin Tao Haiku Retreat in Second Life!

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Good News for the Friends of the Shin Tao and all the rest:
DanteOsaka's Shin Tao Haiku Retreat in Ophelia has its own blog! From now on you can find information on events, new haikus and artwork and important messages from the leopard HERE.