“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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meditation
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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…
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Made in 1997, “The Education of Little Tree” is the story of a half-Cherokee boy who goes to live with his hill-folk grandparents in the Appalachians after his father was…
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The sun now sets at about quarter to five here, and the parkland is in full shadow before 4. Fall is in full flower, or rather unflower, with a large…