Field Notes — The Place Where Thought Stops

Field Notes

UN Village. The Han River, facing north toward Gangnam.

Meditation has a term for it -- the place where thought stops. Not the absence of mind, but the moment just after analysis ends and looking begins.

This is not an analysis. It is a pause -- a page to rest on before the next one.

Quiet Property  ·  Jin Kong
jin@quietproperty.kr
Location: Seoul, South Korea

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