Meditations

First, there is no method to meditation, so the title is a misnomer. Meditation means initiating the unwilled movement of negation, which ends psychological time.

It felt like a meditative state began the moment I saw the sharply etched hills against the cerulean and cirrus-clad sky at the edge of town. Feeling drawn to the…

There is a lot of talk about illumination these days, most of it throwing little light on the subject. The interest no doubt reflects a hunger for spiritual sustenance, as…

An inventor–a man whose name I happily forget but who was called “Edison’s successor” by the interviewer—claimed recently that in 30 or 40 years science will be capable of making…

One of the best Paul Newman movies is a western called ‘Hombre.’ There’s a memorable scene in which a beautiful, middle-aged woman is tied to a post in the desert…

It was a very windy day, with gusts approaching 75 kilometers per hour. You would think the hummingbirds would be hunkered down somewhere. But a small fleet of them put…

A conversation with a Buddhist professor from India turned to Siddhartha’s illumination, the last stage of which was challenged by what we in the West call Satan. “The Buddha,” he…

The human brain is the only brain on this planet that has the capacity to be consciously aware of the sacred. Not the self-projected sacredness of churches and texts, but…