The Way: What is a "Low Tech Monk"?

✋ 5 Symbols

The low tech monk uses five symbols to re-imagine our relationship to technology.

🔥 Fire - meaning, purpose, human experience, that which provides warmth
🟡 Circle - family, friendship, relationships to all living things, as things enter the circle, we keep them on the outside until we are able to harness them to grow the fire
🗡️ Knife - a tool, the potential to help and hurt, neutral
🪨 Stone - a memory, space imbued with time, a moment captured
🎵 Song - an expression, an action, a way to celebrate what we have and invite the others

✋ 5 Practices

The low tech monk follows five practices to grow our cyber wisdom garden.

🧘 Digital Rest - Embrace the pleasure of habitual disconnection, Avoid digital fatigue and burnout
🔰 Digital Initiation - Embrace technology incrementally, Avoid mindless whole-sale adoption
🧼 Digital Purity- Embrace single purpose technology usage, Avoid multi purpose as a norm
👐 Digital Openness- Embrace ongoing conversations about technology, Avoid assumptions and uncertainty
⚖️ Digital Balance- Embrace a digital wisdom framework, Avoid the goal of being tech-savvy

🧗 The Hard Part

You will have to think, and to do that you will have to slow down.
You will have to ask questions, and to do that you will have to listen.
You will have to be honest, and to do that you will have to be vulnerable.

Are you ready?