someone else um it's all about longing and and bad sex and kind of like grasping for love basically and so I finally got exhausted and and realized I just wanted to be with this girl I fellin love with in high school and went back to her and we were you know happily reunited we moved out here actually we
According to the Buddha, our minds are like furry little gibbons, constantly lurching through a forest of urges and impulses and desires, always grasping at things that will not last, in a universe characterized by impermanence, and hurling ourselves from one pleasant experience to the next, one sexual encounter, one meal, one promotion to the next, and yet, never fully satisfied.
Manipulation is a speed cuber solving a Rubik's cube in a few minutes and grasping is not dropping it. And grasping a Rubik's cube is actually something that I can do with the hook that I wear when I do wear a prosthetic arm. Which is the Dorrance 5x named after the guy who patented in 1912.
That's a story with a beginning, middle, and end every night. The grasping at straws to figure out how to use the new technologies that exist in order to better engage and
Thank you very much. But they keep grasping for something.
But so far, it doesn't appear that we do. And we're just grasping to fix things when it's way too late. And that's not-- that's also not the social media world I want to live in.
Very good. Well, in Buddhism, life by nature is not suffering. When we are grasping , when we are attaching ourselves to a certain thing, whether it's your idea, whether it's your health, whether it's your relationship, and holding onto it in hoping that this will not change, then it creates suffering.
practice. And I think a really crucial thing to take away from this is that meditation requires letting go rather than grasping . We tend to live in such a grasping culture. We're always wanting something.
Sometimes there is no cure for the disease. Rather than grasping things, we push things away.
And in a way, one of the beautiful things about mindfulness, in a way it's moving from a sense of attainment to non-attainment, from a sense of grasping to continually letting go-- letting go. There's an expression, opening the hand of thought--
of prosthetic control that even these highly articulated hands are really only capable of grasping . And the difference between grasping and manipulation I think you can use a Rubik's cube to illustrate. Manipulation is a speed cuber solving a Rubik's cube in a few minutes and grasping is not dropping it.
We have a number of ideas about how image libraries-- or actually libraries of 3D objects, of solids and mechanics, could actually be used to enhance grasping using ideas that Matei has pioneered where we can do, for example, very complex computation about grasp strategies. But these can be pre computed in the cloud and then stored so that they can be indexed online
I thought actually, that looks really good. So it's literally the sound of grasping .
I really was burning out with stress. And then this removes the grasping -- not all of it, but some of it-- and also gives a sense of a journey.
I really was burning out with stress. Then it's again back to that grasping .
And then what? You, your brothers, your sisters-- your whole family going to start carrying guns now? Mother left him on a doorstep so grasping for love, facing reminiscent about touch.
So our kid is in-- she's-- how do I explain this? She's having a hard time grasping why a man is coming into our house through a chimney. So spoiler alert-- we're not teaching her about Santa Claus.
Third, Aristotle had suggested that the presence of a mouth and a stomach were central to the definition of an animal. And Trembley had seen polyps grasping food with their tentacles and placing it in their central cavity, so he could prove, according to Aristotle's definition, that the polyp was probably an animal.
A very good way of grasping the changing place of these religions in the world is to ask yourself two questions.
that you're only that grasping thing that has to keep making sure that everything that's meant to happen happens, once that part
They're stumbling and they're grasping as they wrestle with the fundamental questions we all face, who am I, what do I believe in,
It says accurate method of counting for grasping the meaning of things and knowing everything that is, all mysteries and secrets.
My personal feeling is it's grasping at straws, at this point.
Just kind of starting off in terms of grasping it and reading it and sort of consuming it.
And then also, the wanting and the grasping and craving that we experience becomes a habit that creates more wanting, grasping , and craving. So the wanting leads to more wanting, and then we feel never satisfied, because whatever we get isn't enough,
But I think, actually, the main reason people struggle to meditate every day is because of grasping . It's because of a sense of hidden grasping , a hidden agenda, which is I want the meditation to make me feel good. It's a hidden agenda.
So what those kinds of motor control changes cause is difficulty grasping and manipulating small objects, difficulty with continuous movements,
What are we holding with our right hand-- grasping for in our right hand?
It's actually-- the fact that people are grasping for terms to describe it is a good thing, because it means that we're doing something different.
So the first one has to do with grasping .
The second area, under grasping , has to do with the object identification.
What is the role played by the palm in grasping objects and how does it work in tandem with the thumb.
Shankar Mahadevan: See kids are damn fast in grasping things whether they understand it or don't understand it they just learn stuff really fast.
That is a scorecard that I adopted from a society that has me chasing and grasping my entire life.
And no child-- I'm sure my parents didn't-- they had a hard time grasping with that.
We're creating a deficiency or sense of almost despair, and this becomes very painful. And then also, the wanting and the grasping and craving that we experience becomes a habit that creates more wanting, grasping , and craving.
That's why my observations, my grasping senses are very sharp.
And you know, Catherine sort of grasping that and giving each character their real identity, filmic identity, was fantastic.
And it just felt actually so wonderful. In fact, I find myself a little grasping , because I want to be like that all the time. And there's something very, very enlivening about falling apart, depending on others to pick you up.
And these hands are for the most part right now, I think that it would be fair to say, at least in terms of prosthetic control that even these highly articulated hands are really only capable of grasping . And the difference between grasping and manipulation I think you can use a Rubik's cube to illustrate.
And the difference between grasping and manipulation I think you can use a Rubik's cube to illustrate. Manipulation is a speed cuber solving a Rubik's cube in a few minutes and grasping is not dropping it. And grasping a Rubik's cube is actually something that I can do with the hook that I wear when I do wear a prosthetic arm.
So let me go into a little more example in the particular problem of grasping .
I don't know. I'm just grasping at straws here.
So he was reaching out, grasping at straws, trying to find a way to save this old blue-collar boating institution on the San Francisco waterfront when he
I mean, there are a lot of folks that are still not grasping the fact that these are the same chemicals.
And so, when we look at this "heirloom" things of what are we grasping in the past to recover?
And the way I do that in the book is I make use of a metaphor that I think is useful for grasping the incredibly long time scales
But again, it's an example of that rather slow grasping of the new freedoms which this represented.
But I didn't understand why, and it felt like I was just grasping for air, and I couldn't sink my teeth into an answer.
The Buddhist meditation teaching always says that we need to let go of our clinging, our grasping ,