A local reader wrote to declare, “our minds will be dark when we think darkly.” She went on to echo one of the most pernicious philosophies America has ever meted…
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Meditations
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Dusk brings mystery, with a tinge of primal fear. For tens of thousands of years, before the first villages or cities appeared, people huddled together at dusk to fend off…
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Is life lived from the inside out, or from the outside in? This seems like an obvious question, but many supposedly educated people believe that “we construct ourselves inwardly by…
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To a philosopher, a statement like the following is a gold mine: “According to quantum mechanics, particles do not take on formal properties until they are measured or observed in…
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Despite the recent floods in southern California that may foretell a hellacious El Nino winter, traveling from a state where water has become scarce to a state where rain is…
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A long line at the security check in the Sacramento airport snaked around the cloth barricades even before the first glint of dawn had appeared. Hundreds of frequent or infrequent…
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Questioner 1: Time is one of the most difficult problems in philosophy, science and psychology. What is time, and why do we live by it, rather than in the present,…
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Sometimes I wonder how anyone inwardly survives in this world without meditating. But when I hear people talk about their ‘practice,’ I realize we’re not talking about the same thing…