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  • Some thoughts on guilt and innocence

    To the degree that there is an intentionality to guilt. it would involve consciousness of failure. In this sense, I mean failure to do the right thing: either because you failed to do right on purpose or by accident. Existentially,… Continue reading

    Some thoughts on guilt and innocence

  • Aphorism 17Mar2023

    Do not talk to show-off the many things in your stable of understandings. Rather, speak to shine-forth the experience of passing-through this moment. Otherwise, remain in the dignity of silence. Flowing quietly with the Encompassing Now/Here, how can there be… Continue reading

    Aphorism 17Mar2023

  • Health as Shame Generator

    Lots of shame comes out of the Health Industrial Complex. Whether it’s a physician measuring your failure in pounds or a fitness guru manipulating your desire to “look fit and attractive,” shame plays a HUGE role in keeping most people… Continue reading

    Health as Shame Generator

  • Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around

    Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me. Continue reading

    Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around

  • Reversion, Reconciliation, and the loving struggle

    A bit of knowledge-gathering for making restorative justice a part of my way of life. Continue reading

    Reversion, Reconciliation, and the loving struggle

  • Open Virtue, Closed Propriety: Considerations on Daoism and Bergsonism

    No consideration of parallels between Daoism and Bergsonism has been accomplished. Yet there is a profitable comparison to be made between the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Dào Dé Jing and the more contemporary work of French philosopher Henri Bergson.… Continue reading

    Open Virtue, Closed Propriety: Considerations on Daoism and Bergsonism

  • Dyadic not dualistic

    It’s difficult to break out of the Western habitude of dualism. But it is especially important to make the effort when thinking of the Chinese notion of Yin Yang. Rather than another form of dualism in the history of philosophy, it… Continue reading

    Dyadic not dualistic

  • There is no one here

    After my good brother Andrew Teeter shared his experiences living in Korea and learning about the sacred traditions of the Korean people, we took a brief break. On our return, I lectured on the basic points of the Buddha Dharma… Continue reading

    There is no one here

  • Lonely Nation, Touch Starved People

    Americans exist in a sociocultural habitat where touching is discouraged. Yet we are primates, embodied beings evolved to live through, with, and in our senses. And tactility or touching as a sense makes us feel connected–to each other, to our… Continue reading

    Lonely Nation, Touch Starved People

  • Apostle & Epistle

    The term apostle derives from L.L. apostolus, from Gk. apostolos “person sent forth,” from apostellein “to send away, to send forth,” from apo– “from” + stellein “to send.” One sent-forth is a messenger. To have a message is to be an apostle. Who sends forth the… Continue reading

  • May the Fourth Be with You

    Let-go of what weighs you down… “Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.” ~Yoda. And May the Fourth be with you! Continue reading

    May the Fourth Be with You

  • Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life

    I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s… Continue reading

    Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life

  • Loving Struggle, Possible Existenz

    Philosophizing must be a work of art that is always on the brink of failure; a befriending of the power of imaginative vision that already stretches too far until it reaches contradiction and breaks down. Only in this reaching beyond… Continue reading

  • Pax Coffea – the role of coffee in troubling times

    An essay very much worth the read from barista and coffee specialist Peter Giuliano: …how we can use coffee- which is after all the subject dearer to me than any other- as a tool in the fight for good and for… Continue reading

  • Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

    Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with… Continue reading

  • The Journey to Mindfulness

    To give everything back in open communication–the fullness of love–is the vocation of everyday life… Realize this… Around our ownmost personhood there is a circle of earnestness that we might call our mindfulness. It has two principal faculties, the will-to-order… Continue reading

    The Journey to Mindfulness

  • Tim Freke – Part 2 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading

    Tim Freke – Part 2 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

  • Tim Freke – Part 1 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Also see http://batgap.com/tim-freke/ Tim is a philosopher or ‘lover of wisdom’ who is pioneering a simple new way to experience a profound spiritual awakeni… See on www.youtube.com Continue reading

    Tim Freke – Part 1 – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube