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Hitting the bullseye.

Going to the root cause. In light of the recent explosion of potentially catastrophic events around the world, it’s tempting to be dive...
The Little Red Hen, Redux

According to Wikipedia, The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale, most likely of Russian origin, that was used during the 1880s as a story...
Finger pointing at the moon

Anyone even slightly familiar with Zen knows this metaphor of a finger pointing at the moon. And of course, the meaning of the metaphor is t...
Deluded Mind

In the commentary on The Diamond Sutra , Huineng said, “A bodhisattva doesn’t practice charity for his own happiness but to break through...
Is there a “Self?”

Fabrication? Or real? We humans have a big problem: language. We have invented words for everything regardless of whether the thing is ...
The Big Bang and immeasurable silence.

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

In the Samyutta Agama sutra , the Buddha told a parable of four horses. There is an excellent one, a couple of lesser horses and a ba...
Nagarjuna’s teaching on essence.

The bloom of essence. There ’ s an inherent danger in wrongly understanding the two facets of our virtual and non-virtual sides. The n...
Karma and the Wheel of Life and Death.

Everyone has days when they think to themself, “This really sucks. How did I get myself into this mess?” For no apparent reason, life just...

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Earth we have a problem.

“Houston, we have a problem!” Those exact, iconic words, while capturing the essence of the situation, were not spoken by astronaut John ...
The Four Horses of Zen

In the Samyutta Agama sutra , the Buddha told a parable of four horses. There is an excellent one, a couple of lesser horses and a ba...
The Little Red Hen, Redux

According to Wikipedia, The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale, most likely of Russian origin, that was used during the 1880s as a story...
Knowing not.

Our hidden roots Knowing not? Why not say “not knowing?” The first suggests it is possible to fathom nothing, whereas the second impl...
The Big Bang and immeasurable silence.

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

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”⎯Alan Watts As Voltaire indicated, while...
Finger pointing at the moon

Anyone even slightly familiar with Zen knows this metaphor of a finger pointing at the moon. And of course, the meaning of the metaphor is t...
Laws and Order?

Law and Order? In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote and published Future Shock , a book many considered to have caused a paradigm shift in how ...
Talk without action is cheap (and worthless)

Have you ever wondered what Rip Van Winkle must have thought when he awakened after having been asleep for twenty years? Time had moved on. ...
Overcoming natural delusions

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...

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