{"id":1641,"date":"2012-05-18T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2012-05-18T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:41:00","slug":"how-can-gen-ys-become-gen-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"How Can Gen Ys Become Gen Wise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rohan Gunatillake gave opening keynote at <a href=\"http:\/\/futureeverything.org\/home\/about\/\" title=\"About Future Eveything\" target=\"_blank\">Future Everything<\/a> in Manchester.  Thought-provoking, intriguing and, to some in the audience a bit baffling. I enjoyed it &#8211; here&#8217;s the Storify:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/brian_condon\/how-can-gen-ys-become-gen-wise.js\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/brian_condon\/how-can-gen-ys-become-gen-wise\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;How Can Gen Ys Become Gen Wise?  &#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h1>How Can Gen Ys Become Gen Wise?  <\/h1>\n<h2>Rohan Gunatillake<\/h2>\n<p>Storified by Brian_Condon &middot; Fri, May 18 2012 01:25:29<\/p>\n<div>Keynote Speaker: Rohan Gunatillake | FutureEverything ConferenceFutureEverything Conference Keynote Speaker Rohan Gunatillake presents one of the most original talks you are likely to see this year &#8211; on how people are using technology to reinvent Buddhism. Rohan was recently named in Wired Magazine&#8217;s The Smart List 2012: 50 People Who Will Change The World. Conservative, dogmatic and authoritarian&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>Hoping Rohan Gunatillake, founder of urban Buddhism app, is going to help soothe my morning stress @FuturEverything #futr<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>The importance of good beginnings<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>Rohan says &#8220;memorable&#8221; can go one of two ways. At the beginning of a conference we have fresh minds and we don&#8217;t know where it might go.  <\/div>\n<div>Starts in 2007 in a meditation practice and study centre &#8211; and he met a young novice and realised that he was also 2nd generation Sri Lanken. They had lots of mutual connections. He was a monk in Thailand and saw something in Rohan and asked &#8220;Have you thought about becoming a monk&#8221; and I said no. <\/div>\n<div>And we&#8217;re off! @rohan_21awake, explaining his experiences in Thailand #futr to begin his Keynote &quot;Generation Wise&quot; pic.twitter.com\/btSQzxNRFutureEverything<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake : if you want to stay there for more than 3 nights you have to shave your head, and that includes your eyebrows #futr<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Buddhism in the Digital Age<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>But he also realised that Buddhist practices can work in cities and big organisations. The are lots of people making Buddhist practice work in urban environments and in technology.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake &quot;Generation Wise wants to make Buddhism part of our lives but our lives are digital, relational, urban&quot; #futr<\/div>\n<div>&quot;it&#8217;s not fashionable to talk about religion&quot; and now we delve in to the thick of it, note convoluted subtitle #futr pic.twitter.com\/YBzlwQAu<\/div>\n<div>RT @bilalr: Buddhism as an innovation tradition, in inner technologies and design &#8211; by @rohan_21awake at #futr pic.twitter.com\/OWMkOEHM<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake in full flow at #futr Buddhist practice in the Digital Age twitpic.com\/9lysdm<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>&#8220;Inner Technologies&#8221;<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>RT @findmandy: Like @Rohan_21awake #futr description of the Buddah as a protoscientist- using inner technologies to gain insights into the human condition<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake &quot;We&#8217;re here in a cathedral to external technologies. Meditation is an inner technology of attention and intention&quot; #futr<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake talking about the Buddha and the development of &quot;inner technology&quot; #futr twitpic.com\/9lyto6<\/div>\n<div>Moving into the Zen aesthetic and a change in inner technology &#8211; about simplicity and Koan practice. The 3 grand traditions of Buddhism innovating and changing but in their own largely geographic areas. Once the hippies came along this changed &#8211; as some of them engaged and took the thinking back to the West. <\/div>\n<div>But now it&#8217;s not in the Hippies &#8211; it&#8217;s in the Hipsters! Now you have all the traditions in one place whose teachers are baby boomers and it&#8217;s all a bit of a mess. <\/div>\n<div>#futr Buddhism has now moved from the realm of the hippies to the hipsters.<\/div>\n<div>Paraphrasing @rohan_21awake: hipsters are a growth market for Buddhism #futr<\/div>\n<div>Hipster meditators. Ha. #futr<\/div>\n<div>Lots of comment on Twitter about Rohan&#8217;s comments about Hippies to Hipsters transition. <\/div>\n<div>Buddhist GeeksDiscover the Emerging Face(s) of Buddhism<\/div>\n<div>Now he&#8217;s talking about Buddhist Geeks as &#8220;hackers of the mind&#8221; &#8211; and he made the Buddhify app as an example of meditation design applied to the modern world. <\/div>\n<div>Buddhist geeks are &quot;hackers of the mind&quot; says @rohan_21awake at #futr twitpic.com\/9lyy5s<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake #OMCru is a community of people all around the world practising meditation together, mediated by Twitter #futr<\/div>\n<div>Buddhist geeks as mind hackers, online meditation communities, urban meditation, buddhify. Real food for thought #futr, and I&#8217;m an atheist!<\/div>\n<div>Corporate buddhism &#8211; scary. Buddhist geeks &#8211; intriguing. Hacking operations of the mind &#8211; ?! @rohan_21awake at #futr<\/div>\n<div>#omcru buddhify as learning mediation walking around the city #futr #wellbeing<\/div>\n<div>RT @futrConf: @rohan_21awake : Buddhist geeks are working on hacking the operating system of the mind. They take it seriously. #futr<\/div>\n<div>BrainBotBrainBot began as a trip to the Himalayan mountains to measure the brainwaves of meditating monks. In the summer of 2011, we won a grant from the non-profit healthcare incubator to help people be more mindful through technology.<\/div>\n<div>His hypothesis is that using your phone will aid mental health &#8211; and eventually we will start to integrate technology into ourselves. <\/div>\n<div>There seems to be hi-minded a Buddhist &quot;inner technology&quot; meme at #FUTR. I was going to talk about Data Wombles #pullmysocksup<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake : I get a lot of flak&#8230;someone&#8217;s writing a masters thesis on the spiritual disaster of [my app] @buddhify #futr<\/div>\n<div>I like the sound of \u201calgorithmic meditation\u201d, I&#8217;d be so much more inclined to meditate if I had a robot teacher #futr<\/div>\n<div>Now he&#8217;s looking at attention and activism and how we can soften the minds of activists as well &#8211; as a way to avoiding &#8216;burn out&#8217; and the feeling of being overwhelmed.   He sees this happening in the next 5 years &#8211; where inner technologies can play a bigger part.  Mentions Steve Jobs (influenced by Zen aethetics) and Eric Ries and the Lean Startup movement. <\/div>\n<div>Attention economy, why don&#8217;t we design with the mind in mind? Is silence actually silent from an attention point of view? Interesting #futr<\/div>\n<div>QuestionsRe use of term Buddhism &#8211; does it become obsolete?It&#8217;s why we called it meditation by design &#8211; not Buddhism by design.   Not necessarily using the transformative power. <\/div>\n<div>great opening keynote by @rohan_21awake at @futureverything: meditation as internal technology of attention and intention #futr<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake interesting! Something to munch on this morning&#8230;&#8230;. @VincentHorn<\/div>\n<div>@rohan_21awake great talk Rohan! 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