meditation

Bonobos look like graceful versions of chimpanzees. They are entirely tree dwelling, don’t make tools, or primitive war, or engage in hunting monkeys for meat as chimpanzees do. In other…

We like to think we are individuals, especially in the West. Indeed, individualism is largely an unseen and unquestioned ideology.

Nothing shows the limits of science and the scientific method more than recent studies of awe in human beings. Following the tiresome trend of hypothesizing on the evolution of every…

You know things are bad in the West when many people, of many faiths, turn to the head of the patriarchal, corrupt, antediluvian Roman Catholic Church (RCC) for moral guidance.…

Three white teenagers rode their bikes down to the creek about 60 meters downstream. The older two looked like they were still in junior high school, about 14. The youngest…

Sometimes I’m asked what I do to awaken a meditative state. This is what I do: I sit and watch the movement of thought and emotion in the mirror of…

A reader asks, “Can the people who have a natural talent to quiet their thoughts and clean their mind, not by effort and struggling, but only through insight, point the…

Forty-five years ago, while protesting the invasion of Cambodia ten days after President Nixon said he was winding down the war in Vietnam, my generation played at revolution, and got…