Academic Success Blog

The other day I was browsing through my copy of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, by Shunryu Suzuki.  The subtitle of the book is “Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice” but it could easily be “ways of learning” or “ways of seeing.”  That day, I stopped at the talk on “Mind Weeds,” in the section [...]

For my last birthday, my son (a U of T student) gave me a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is, as he assured me it would be, full of insightful observations that apply to, well, many things, but that seem to have particular relevance to the work that we do [...]