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Life, death, and fear. Nowadays, there is not only a spike in the incidence of COIVD  infections ( and resulting mortal death ), but there i...

Our times and circumstances have changed much in the 13 years since I first wrote, published and posted, this to my blog ( as written and qu...

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...

“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...

The essential question. I originally posted this years ago, but we have short memories so re-posting may not be a bad thing. The curren...

“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group...

Some say we come into this world as a blank slate, upon which is A high cost to pay.  written the moment-by-moment experiences of mortal lif...

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...

Law and Order? In 1970 Alvin Toffler wrote and published Future Shock , a book many considered to have caused a paradigm shift in how ...

The realm of reality. Many, if not most, of the problems we encounter as humans are due to what we either don’t know or refuse to know....