As I write, Christianity is commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, which purportedly took place between noon and 3 pm on Good Friday before he physically resurrected from the…
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When I lived in San Francisco I knew an Argentinean fellow who, as a student, had been swept up in Guerra Sucia, the “Dirty War”—a period of extreme repression from…
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The only way one can speak of the horrendous situation in the world today is if wisdom is stirring in human heart, and not just surging darkness. Otherwise, what’s the…
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Though I’m not a Buddhist, Buddhist philosophy and poetry (as opposed to the arcane intricacies of various Buddhist traditions) speak to me. The quieting and emptying of the mind and…
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Of all the outrages President Trump (I’ll never get used to that phrase) has already committed, the one that made the media-government complex apoplectic was when he derisively spoke the…
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It’s fitting at Christmas, when the West celebrates the birth of Jesus, to reflect on the full flower of his teachings. This statement is apropos: “Truly I tell you, unless…
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If the New Testament parable is true, Jesus didn’t understand what went wrong, and cried out on the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
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An eerie silence pervades the land the morning after Americans elected a narcissistic demagogue President of the United States. Of course the commentariat, who were so wrong, and complicit in…