Month: September 2020

 July 13, 2014  There are lessons, teachings, all around and within us. They are present continually, the flow never stops. It only appears to dry up when we tune it out. But whenever we are open to it, our bodies and our lives carry messages in virtually every moment. One choice we have to make…

 February 19, 2013  The mind of ambition inhibits genuine growth. To obsess on gaining the heights not only impairs but actually precludes the self-awareness essential to growth. The incessant climb makes us dizzy, and finally blind. Consider for a moment the spiritual geography of the Judeo-Christian religion: would not Satan have a better and clearer…

 March 7, 2013  So, who’s the cute little teddy-robot, and how did he lose his head? Well, if you follow APOD, then you know that this is an electron micrograph of a tardigrade, or water bear — that is, a living creature on this living Earth. This one was observed on a piece of moss. The…

December 25, 2012 It has been, in many respects, a year of night. No doubt our human species has had its share of it at large — unceasing and expanding war, recession, and our continuing ignorance of the environmental destruction that could fatally undermine the habitability of our planetary home by the end of this…

 May 5, 2014  Whenever I read over some of the content I post here, it occurs to me that I frequently fail to follow my own best advice. But any teacher or pundit or writer worth his salt should be able to make that admission; and those who don’t are to be given a wide…

 May 1, 2014  I am drawn toward the invisible realm, toward the quantum reality that lives beneath the appearances amid which we strive and struggle. True, I play the game: work, money, human interaction. I go to meetings; try to pay enough attention to finance to get by; I follow the news and especially sports…

 February 8, 2014  When I was a boy, I loved recess. It was a break in the school day from the drudgery and oppressive silence of the classroom, a brief opening into noise and laughter and play. I suspect I did more real growing during recess than in any amount of time I spent in…

  August 15, 2012  I can recall sitting in a project meeting one day a few years ago. I was the Business Analyst, the fellow responsible for creating documentation that would become the “project book” — the functional, business-oriented, technical, and performance specifications or requirements for the application that was being developed for this project….

 April 1, 2014  Where, I wonder, does your body end? This is what the old Zen masters called a koan, one of those puzzles that can’t be held in the hand of Reason, any more than air or smoke can be gripped by the fist. The general, common sense answer would of course be: at…

 May 12, 2014  This is the kind of thing that can change your day and maybe — if you’re not careful, that is — even transform your life. Like all true art, it challenges, penetrates appearances, and calls upon what is true and universal within and among us all. Rumi was a great Persian poet and…