CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • 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

  • Soul Spelunker: Musings On Metaphor And Allegory

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions These primeval symbolic images are best presented, not as allegories, but as metaphors. Metaphorical language is the language of Soul. Thus, there is a correlation between imaginal reality and metaphor, just as there is… Continue reading

  • Why You’re Not A Leader – Forbes

    Ten items to help identify the leader from the manager. Pretty helpful. Everybody thinks they’re a leader – most are far from it. The harsh reality is that we live in a world awash with wannabe leaders. As much as… Continue reading

  • From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason | World news | The Guardian

    Two years on from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the new Egyptian president is from the Muslim Brotherhood; on the streets of Cairo, the same kind of people who died in droves in 2011 are still getting killed. On the… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on philosophia: Looking back over the centuries, philosophy has often served society as the proto-discipline par excellance.  It was the name given to the community of the wise, before that wisdom become specialized enough or technological enough to… Continue reading

  • Dreaming Action, Risking Curiosity

    “The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers” — William S. Burroughs “Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action — the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the… Continue reading

  • Report: More American Students Going to China for Higher Ed | Education News

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The Ford Foundation’s 2012 Open Doors report, released on January 30, says that an increasing number of American students are going to China to study for credit, as well as for many other study… Continue reading

  • Controlled Accident

    At the heart of perennial philosophizing is an always developing mastery that we can, following Alan Watts, call “controlled accident.” Others have done far better than I could in really detailing what is meant by this oxymoronic usage. But if… Continue reading

  • Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: 83 Problems: A Buddhist Sutra/Parable

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions   What’s the problem?   A koan goes this way? See on wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com Continue reading

  • Soul Spelunker: Beyond The Mountain Of Qaf

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions In his classic essay, Mundus Imaginalis, Henry Corbin attempts to articulate the distinction between the imaginal and the imaginary. This distinction has been necessary for discussion since Western scholars took a turn towards Averroism… Continue reading

  • Handling this Very Moment

    The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. Thich Nhat Hanh, Understanding Our Mind A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to… Continue reading