Today, I did encounter the frustration of having to align parts of my poems and photographs to my blog on the Six Paramitas. It turned out not quite as I had wanted it to be, and I started to realize how fickle the whole process is. At times, learning to navigate blog creation is a kind of art which requires a lot of situated practice.
I think all of this suggests to me that the process itself is more important than the result. When I can rest in the lesson that difficulty and frustration can present in a situation, then there is no longer any pressure leaning on the result itself. I can try a few different approaches and leave things as best as I can create them if worse comes to worse. I think this approach leaves room for mistakes and even for the imperfections of creation to arise.
Technology is not something that is foreign to a person's mind and humanity, for that matter. I have heard the argument that technology is but an extension of people's facilities. So why is it the case that at times technology seems so alien? I think it's because there is something unrelenting and uncompromising about machines and how they break down in very unique and special ways. Whereas humans allow for a certain negotiation, machines just break down when it's least convenient. However, now that I am thinking more into it, I wonder if machines are really as 'soulless' as we think them to be. Is it possible that by learning to see the unique soul in our technologies, we might end up constructing a much more fruitful connection to it?
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