Meditations by Martin LeFevre
Die while you’re alive and be absolutely dead. Then do whatever you want; it’s all good. Bunan, 17th century Japanese Zen Master I’m first a contemplative, which means a focus…
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The word ‘evolution’ is overused and misused, coming to mean everything from gradual societal improvement to technological innovation. Strictly speaking however, evolution has nothing to do with human affairs. Indeed,…
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Given how I became one, I don’t talk much about being a vegetarian. Each person has to come to it in his or her own way. My way, which I…
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The fundamental question of our time is: Does a prototype exist somewhere in this world that can provide an adequate response to the human crisis? To my mind, the answer…
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Toward late afternoon, the light on a high overcast day becomes white and ethereally bright. Through the bare branches and beyond the tall pines, subtle hues of blue and gray…
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Homo sapiens is an experiment in consciousness that is failing. Why are we failing, and what would it mean to succeed as a species? Not only the diversity of life…
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Having endured a bad, but short-lived head cold before Christmas, I’ve been unable to shake a minor cough with major phlegm production and slowly diminishing energy since. On Thursday I…
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The land down under has turned up over everyone lately, with people driven into the sea and a billion animals killed in wildfires. Here in northern California, Paradise still casts…