“Buddhify Your Android”<\/a><\/strong> (Tricycle blog, 4\u00a0Dec 2015). Delving into meditation apps for your mobile, and the sometimes\u00a0tense relationship between ancient meditation practices, and the modern permutations that are being created for acceptance into a high-tech,\u00a0post-modern, digitally-based, consumer society, Tresch writes, “Humans have always made and remade themselves through technology …\u00a0It\u2019s no surprise that today\u2019s asceticisms follow the contours of today\u2019s defining technologies.” Naturally, he finds irony in “digital devices that aim to release us from the suffering caused by excessive dependence on digital devices,” but he also highlights a potential risk, namely, that meditation-by-app offers “the promise of liberation at the price of a new attachment.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s that time of year once again. Ads for holiday shoppers, our friends’ post-Thanksgiving photos, and the final exam schedule all fight for our attention. It’s the annual End-of-Semester Dash. It’s fun. It’s intense. And sometimes it’s just-too-much. You just want to reach out … grab\u00a0your PHONE\u00a0and turn on\u00a0some peace and quiet. Wait. Can your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}