Gudjon Bergmann's Blog, page 2
February 23, 2023
Three Things That Chat GPT Does Not Have: Experience, Authenticity and Vulnerability
As a writer, I must admit that I feel somewhat threatened by Chat GPT. The AI can write a grammatically perfect text with philosophical gravitas that I struggle to achieve—and it can do it in a few seconds. I’ve toyed with it for over a month now. Early on, I was convinced I would start […]
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February 17, 2023
Is Interrogative Thinking the Wisdom Described in the Serenity Prayer?
Recently, I’ve become aware of the idea of interrogative thinking and am fascinated, probably because it rhymes with an idea I came up with in the early 2000s. Back then, I posited that being blindly positive could become toxic and suggested replacing it with constructive thinking; based on the question: “What is the most constructive […]
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February 3, 2023
Two Ways to Talk About Meditation
“I am giving a meditation talk next week at our church,” a friend told me during our monthly discussion. “My goal is to talk loosely about my thirty-year meditation experience and then open the floor to discussions. What do you think? How do you talk about meditation when you give talks and workshops?” I responded […]
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January 30, 2023
Dear Fellow Spiritual Seekers: We Are Too Serious
My daughter asked me which three movies I’d take with me to a desert island. Without overthinking, I replied, “Airplane, Princess Bride and Die Hard.” What all these movies have in common—in addition to revealing my age—is that they are comedic. Yet, if you scour through my writings on this website and read my books, […]
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January 27, 2023
Know This Atman: A Reflection
Know this AtmanUnborn, undying, Never ceasing, beginning, Deathless, birthless, Unchanging for ever. How can It dieThe death of the body? Knowing It birthless, deathless, endless, For ever unchanging, Worn-out garmentsAre shed by the body:Worn-out bodiesAre shed by the dwellerWithin the body.New bodies are donnedBy the dweller, like garments. Not wounded by weapons,burned by fire, dried […]
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January 23, 2023
How Interspirituality Informs My Attempts to Be Compassionate
Compassion has been at the heart of my interspiritual attempts for years. As I wrote in Co-Human Harmony, I’ve defined compassion as the ability to empathize with others and act accordingly. Perhaps I got that idea from Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh in my late twenties. He wrote that “Compassion is a […]
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January 20, 2023
Writing Your Interspiritual Life Story
One of the first things I encourage people to do in the interspiritual mapping process is to write their interspiritual life story. It offers clues about interests, needs, values, aspirations and distastes. What you don’t like is often as important as what you like. Here are a few questions to help you write your interspiritual […]
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January 16, 2023
An Interspiritual Mapping Process
Practicing interspirituality can be confusing. That is why it is important to have a mapping process that allows individuals to piece together how they will use inspiration and practices from various wisdom traditions to aid their spiritual exploration. Don’t know what interspirituality is? Read this first. In this article, I will outline the most important […]
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January 13, 2023
The Central Idea Behind Mindfulness is Widely Misunderstood: You Are the Thinker, Not Your Thoughts
Mindfulness has become extremely popular in the past twenty years. Strangely enough—even though it has both Buddhist and yogic roots—it has mostly been taken over by academia and stripped of its spirituality. This new secular form of mindfulness focuses on feelings and is married to cognitive behavioral therapy. The goal is to reduce feelings of […]
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January 10, 2023
Flow With Life
One of the great lessons we can learn from ancient spiritual seekers is their observance of natural laws and rhythms. A seasoned mystic flows effortlessly with life while observing and obeying its laws and rhythms. Honoring the changing seasons, experiencing and listening to bodily rhythms of digestion and elimination, all while understanding and welcoming the […]
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