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Here’s your basic Graduate Record Exam question: What event links the following people? The people are (not in any particular order): Max...

What traps us? The Buddha taught us that we trap ourselves because of deluded thinking. We misunderstand our true nature and thus imagine...

Many years ago, my teacher said that the process of awakening was like a hand that begins with a fist of fear and over time, through persi...

Some time ago, I wrote a post called “ The High Price of Choice: Winning Battles, Losing Wars. ” In that post, I spoke about making choice...

Spiritual homeostasis Homeostasis defined: “Homeostasis is a characteristic of a system that regulates its internal environment and te...

Singularity and the void. Back in the period before pandemic social-distancing, the story of Stephen Hawking was playing in movie thea...

The winds of change. At the current time, conditional uncertainty and instability are running rampant throughout the world, and this is...

Good and Evil. To say what’s real, by necessity must consider the opposite—What’s not real. Nothing can be understood in isolation. It is on...

Who Dat? Our sense of who and what we are determines how we relate to the world. In a prior post , I stuck a little toe into the great...

Image via Wikipedia “ Thinking outside the box ”—A familiar expression that suggests creativity beyond normal limitations. Everyone has h...