“This was not something to think about,” he later said. “This was something to do: to close your eyes, hold your breath, jump in, and come out the other end more insightful.”
how to use ambient sounds to bring us back to focus on our meditation.”
Shunryu Suzuki, who wrote Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect,
Throughout his life he would seek to follow many of the basic precepts of Eastern religions, such as the emphasis on experiential prajñā, wisdom or cognitive understanding that is intuitively experienced through concentration of the mind.
It reinforced my sense of what was important— creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé, which extolled the personal and planetary benefits of vegetarianism.
Jobs began sharing with Kottke other books, including Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa.