{"id":669120,"date":"2026-03-27T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=669120"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:35:58","slug":"zen-walking-meditation-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/zen-walking-meditation-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen, walking meditation photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a big insight: it seems, that, we photographers, we brave new photographers\u2026 Essentially what we are doing is like walking Zen meditation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">your legs, your muscle is your capital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of what to maintain, it seems pretty easy and obvious; you gotta maintain your body, your muscles etc. And therefore the inputs, of, your exercise, your meat consumption, your sleep is all very very conducive and productive towards this goal.\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">play for the insanely long game \ufffc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So assuming you\u2019re like shooting for having a family of five or six, you got to play for the insanely long game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In photography, also a funny idea remains, <strong>you got to be immune to AI disruption etc<\/strong>. \ufffc\ufffc or better yet, you gotta figure out how to thrive from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">thriving from chaos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rule one, just don\u2019t get liquidated. Rule two, don\u2019t check finances before you sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think for a long time, I always thought that the point of life was to get super rich, and also, gained a lot of like spending power buffer. But as time goes on, my philosophy towards capital and now collateral is changing. Bitcoin disrupts all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the hard thing is, as a bitcoin digital capital real estate investor\u2026 The thing that you don\u2019t get a lot of is cash flow, or predictable profits. But, annualized, it\u2019s kind of the obvious option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">why does this all matter?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody wants to be miserable. And also\u2026 Everyone wants great health and a good night sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s funny\u2026 Even Zeus, can lose a good night sleep because he is troubled in his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">zen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a lot of Zen masters talk about, achieving Zen, being Zen whatever. I am happy and proud to have essentially\u2026 Achieve this with 100% precision. Yet, real life is more than this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">so what is it in life we truly seek?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All digital everything. \ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a big insight: it seems, that, we photographers, we brave new photographers\u2026 Essentially what we are doing is like walking Zen meditation? your legs, your muscle is your capital In terms of what to maintain, it seems pretty easy and obvious; you gotta maintain your body, your muscles etc. And therefore the inputs, of, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669121,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669120\/revisions\/669121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}