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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Arriving by bike at the little creek at the edge of town, I find that the recent rains have turned it into a small torrent. Sitting under a cobalt sky,…
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Time has left us memories of our ancestors. Those memories are expressed through art, stories and history. The most beautiful examples are of the tales of the afterlife. There is…
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Culture, in the anthropological and traditional sense of the word, barely exists anymore. It’s one interconnected world of immense disorder now, which absurdly is called diversity. (Have you noticed that…
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It’s hard for me to follow the rules of the Bible. A lot of Christians take the words from the Bible, piece by piece and memorize each verse. It’s hard for…
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A friend asked, “is what you’re talking about related to what some call samadhi, the highest state of meditation?” Undoubtedly, though I don’t like using Eastern terms.
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The observer is the original separation in the human mind. From this existential mistake all division originates, ending in the war between “my country and your country,” “my religion and…
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We know and accept the cycles of life and death, except when it comes to our selves of course. But is death actually an infinite ground, and communing with it,…