Ubiquitous Living Now (and Here)

We live in a time when one could work 24/7 from anywhere in the world via networked technologies – which can be a blessing and a challenge to living an authentic life. This recent and well done Sprint commercial vividly captures this 24/7 situation and what’s happening “now". The challenge seems to be that technology will increasingly permeate global societies including our own and how will authenticity, spiritual and otherwise, survive. In answer, on the PBS program “Speaking of Faith” this morning, Jon Kabat-Zinn spoke of the value of practicing mindfulness in “the ceaseless society.” He spoke of fostering “intimacy with spaciousness” (nice phrase) as an antidote. To hear more see http://tr.im/jarY.