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From time to time, I’ve written about the related matters of dogma, close-mindedness, delusion, and bias. My observations ordinarily st...

I’ve written about this issue before, but our divided response to the current political race for  a new POTUS deserves review. This is a te...

The fusion of two worlds Sixteenth-century Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross wrote a poem that narrates the journey of th...

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Not many books on Zen have achieved the notoriety...

Seeing you seeing me. The President’s daughter Ivanka Trump says, “Perception is more important than reality.”  Obviously, a distincti...

Meet Nagarjuna Our world is drowning in a sea of rights vs. wrongs, governments trapped in ideological deadlocks, conflicts and wars, b...

Everyone desires certainty, but it doesn’t come about; the ground beneath our feet is different from what it was yesterday, and consequent...

Ignorance based fear. A while ago I came across a greeting card, intended as encouragement, that said, “Don’t let reality get in the...

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

That is THE question. “If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”—W...

Seeing through the fog of delusion. “Look straight ahead. What’s there? If you see it as it is, you will never err.” These were the wor...

From time to time, it ’ s worth recycling some posts. This one, in particular, is such a post since it addresses the underpinnings of how l...