{"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 \u2026<\/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,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_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_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_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}]}}