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  • “The Straight Agenda”: an e-toon from thebigslice.org

    etoon-straight-agenda.jpg (3292×1488). Continue reading

  • nesh nesh nesh

    …As has always been said, clarity comes with the giving up of self. But what this means is that we cease to attribute selfhood to these echoes and mirror images. Otherwise we stand in a hall of mirrors, dancing hesitantly… Continue reading

  • wandering, wondering: (a)maze

    Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the… Continue reading

    wandering, wondering: (a)maze

  • Originally posted on Evolutionary Landscapes: By and large, Talat’s story shares with the reader two distinct possibilities for our contemporary culture: transformation and healing. The two coincide: one wave piles over the other as it recedes, unveiling the shadows, traumas,… Continue reading

  • Tip Your Server and Save the World / Truthout

    Want to help the workers? The economy? The whole country? Tip your server, don’t be a jackass about it, and worry about the rest of the world after you do what is right within reach of your arm. Maybe, if… Continue reading

  • Comments to a Walking Meditation 20130205

    The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the good; by choosing the gratifying, one misses one’s goal. Both the good and the gratifying… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vr_vKsk_h8 Commemorating Black History Month Continue reading

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: Last Saturday was the first substantial snowfall that we’ve had all season.  To herald the occasion, I was out of bed by 5AM, shoveling the sidewalk by 5:20 or so, and on the road by 6:30. … Continue reading

  • Mindfulness = Emptiness

    Mindful thinking properly becomes emptiness or no-thing. This begins by the inward turn. Being now/here, there is no then/there to which you can race that will possess all the things you “need” to possess. Continue reading

    Mindfulness = Emptiness

  • Philosophical Improv with Andrew J. Taggart

    In this short YouTube video, my colleague Andrew J. Taggart explores the way in which radiance manifests itself. A Ph.D.-trained philosophical counselor,  his forthcoming book, Radiance: An Essay for Unsettled Time, discusses the important connection between goodness and beauty. Links to follow up… Continue reading