Bare branches and bushes afford a long view downstream. As usual, it takes a while for the senses to become attuned to sounds, sights and smells of the water, sky,…
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“Meditation is the opening of the door to essence, opening the door to a furnace whose fire utterly destroys, without leaving any ashes.” J.Krishnamurti Descartes was wrong. He should have…
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In the 4 billion-year history of life on earth, from single-celled bacteria to trilobites to dinosaurs to humans, there have been five mass extinctions. The Washington Post recently published a…
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After sitting for an hour beside the rippling stream, watching the water flow by below my feet and people on bikes and foot flow by on the pedestrian road across…
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I’ve long wondered why the question that seized me as a young man didn’t register with the vast majority of philosophers. Given that nature unfolds in seamless wholeness, I asked,…
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A friend and I fr0m philosophy grad school days at the University of Oregon are exploring the question: Is the human brain exapted for insight? ‘Exaptation’ is a word coined…
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The I-don’t-want-to-lives are leaving, and the I-want-to-lives are arriving. They have gold sewn into their clothes, sewn in for those who have none. Rumi Sitting just upstream from the footbridge,…
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With dogs barking in front, back and on one side of the house this morning, I couldn’t write, much less meditate, so I drove to the parkland. Expressing the slightest…