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No Mud, No Lotus

As mentioned previously, I had recently a chance to see Thich Nhat Hanh give a dharma talk at the Beacon Theater (which is one of the most beautiful theaters I’ve ever been in).  On the surface, the...

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Upon meeting a teacher

The teacher does not sell water by the riverside. He simply sits and slowly sips, waiting for you to join him. Watch his movements, learn their meaning.  That is all. When it is time, your thirst will...

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Interplanetary Spacebased Internet System

Just a shot in the dark with that title… As pointed out this article in Wired UK (found via Klint Finley’s Mutate!),  Google recently unveiled that their NAdroid phones will use a new internet protocol...

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Biocenticism

It has been said that the more you study physics and biology, the more amazing it becomes that anything exists at all.  That the universe exists and that we exist to experience it is seen as a more and...

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Post Ango Wrap Up

I’ve been meaning to do this for a few weeks now, but reality seemed to keep conspiring against it.  But I’m betting that’s because, on some level, I’m rather loathe to reveal any details of my actual,...

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Lawrence of Arabia

“Reason calls the grave a gateway of peace: and instinct shuns it.” - T. E. Lawrence [The Mint (Penguin Books 1984)] I went to a screening of Lawrence of  Arabia a few months back.  Got to see a full...

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Frames Per Second

Just finished reading a great post over at “Imagining the 10th Dimension”: Consciousness in Frames per Second. In it, Rob Bryanton discusses the “frame rate” of human consciousness.  He explains that...

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NOW I Want to See Avatar

I recently expressed an opinion in the comments on Avatar (which, as the post title implies, I haven’t seen yet) saying I wasn’t too excited about it, other than to see the special effects (I hear...

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The Prodigal Son Returns Home

The inner “I” is in touch with reality but cannot see outside of it. The outer “I” is aware of possibilities, but loses touch with the real. Oh, this fourth dimensional existence! What can we do but...

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Schizophrenia, Time Perception, and The Reduction of Awareness

This morning, I read the latest post up at Ann Seeker’s blog, where she’s been summarizing her experience of reading David Appelbaum’s book The Stop.  I bookmarked the article for later reading because...

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Snakeskin: A Sesshin Story

So, here’s one attempt at capturing a moment from my sesshin session last week. During a sesshin (in the Mountains and Rivers Order, at least), the resident teachers or senior students will give a talk...

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Breach Babies

Purple monkey wrenches, flung through the air by red baboons. Done they are, with working on the master’s cars. Time travel and the pyramids fill their thoughts. Lost continents… Whence Atlantis? And...

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A Haiku

Wisps of cloud flow by Foam on an ocean of sky My head opens wide

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Wind, Sand, and Stars

Wind, Sand, Stars (Terre des Hommes in the original French title) is the telling of the real-life aviary exploits of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Price, when he was flying mail...

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Parable of the Door

A man, wandering late at night through a dark wood, came upon a large house.  Inside the house, there appeared to be a great celebration going on.  Lights, music, cheering; the man could smell food...

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On Free Will, Determinism, and “Animals”

All this talk of “animals” has got me thinking.  If our desires and thoughts can be compared to animals that, when seen clearly, run about fairly randomly within the wilderness of our own naked...

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Some thoughts on Dukkha and Fire

From “Pilgermann“: “Every action is under His control,” said Firouz.  “How can that be, really? Think of the dreadful things that are done in this world every day.” “The child is under the control of...

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On Strength

I’ve been reading Thomas Merton lately, as yesterday’s post makes pretty obvious, and there is a lot in that little book about surrendering to God, letting God come into your self and light you up from...

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Upon Confronting a Recurring Barrier

1) Barriers often bar our path, sometimes for many years.  It can take a lot of work to get ourselves to the point where we feel ready to tackle them.  For sometimes, the root of the barrier exists in...

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On Demons

You must have often wondered why the Enemy does not make more use of His power to be sensibly present to human souls in any degree He chooses and at any moment. But you now see that the Irresistible...

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The White Page

And now for something a little different.  A free-write, of sorts, which I will be leaving up for a while (ie: no new posts), so as to give people a chance to read it.  Let me know what you think… A...

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The Abyss: A Coalescence (watching the tide come in, awaiting its retreat)

The abyss.  Seemingly standing at the ever-growing-edge of the “known”, it is an infinite emptiness created by the heart’s (true) belief in the existence of infinite fullness. When this belief comes...

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Is it possible to live from the infinite fullness, and allow the...

(pulling this out of the comments in my last post, because it deserves better than that) Being in-the-moment can open up a dimension of timelessness that gives us a sense of the Infinitely-Full.  And...

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Reclusland, a remix

The true hero does not wait on society to cast off its many weights before he or she goes forth. For society is almost always a taming, though it doesn’t have to be. And do not shout for God to help,...

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Work (and Meaning)

The individualism of the 60s and 70s gave rise to the freeing of the self, in good and bad ways. This lead us to the state we currently find ourselves, where the upper class seeks personal fulfillment...

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