By Kimine Mayuzumi What is Nothingness? What can we learn from Nothingness? These are the questions I started contemplating when I practiced Taijiquan (Tai Chi) and read books on its core philosophy, Daoism, and other Eastern thoughts. Nothingness is a topic that is too huge to discuss adequately in a blog post. This could be a life-long learning concept and I don’t take it lightly. While Nothingness is a fundamental (pre)ontological point of Eastern philosophy…
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How to build your own support system: Here are resource sheets
By Kimine Mayuzumi You may already know this in your body, even if it’s easy to forget: It is vital to have a support system—a circle of friends and colleagues, both inside and outside the academy. In a past blog post on imposter feelings in academia, we shared how important it is to build one’s own support system to navigate the shame that is so common in academic spaces. Alongside the competitive culture of…
Be mindful, trust the process and let go of outcomes – Part II: 5 reminders
By Kimine Mayuzumi In Part I, I discussed why it is (even more) important to be mindful, trust the process and let go of outcomes in this unique context, especially in the neoliberal culture with the pandemics (i.e., virus and social unrest) added. Then, a question I ask here is “what are the conditions and the mindset to create (or at least try to create) within ourselves so that we could more effortlessly be mindful,…
Be mindful, trust the process and let go of outcomes – Part I: Why now?
By Kimine Mayuzumi While the whole world has slowed down, the guilty feeling of many academics hasn’t – could be quite an opposite. It is partly because even the adjustment made for the evaluation system for tenure and promotion doesn’t seem to be promising at this point. The society is quite unsettling. The gap between who can produce and who can’t has been exacerbated. The latter group would feel agitated, anxious, and scarce within themselves…
Navigating Work from Home with Fear as A Companion: 11 Selected Blog Posts
By Kimine Mayuzumi Fear Fear has always been an essential companion to our lives. It tries to defend us from given threats. Fear caused by a traumatic event brings us the energy stored for emergencies to the front and creates our hyperarousal state so that we can quickly deal with the event or minimize our risks. So there is nothing wrong with holding onto fear. What I learned and tried to practice in the pre-pandemic…