Pendulums in the Sky with Diamonds
“Leave them alone and they’ll come home, wagging their tails behind them.”–From the writings of 16th century shepherdess, Little Bo Peep. This morning, I...
Category: Time, Space, and Knowledge
The Private and the General
How did the title “General” become an image of authority and “Private” of subservience to that authority? Surely it’s as private individuals that we...
Clear Sailing
How easy it is to lose track of all the space that permeates every part of our embodiment and lies within every surface that...
Empty and Full
Several Sanskrit terms have made it into Western vocabularies. Some, such as karma and samsara, require no translation, and are considered by many to...
Mr. Quantum and Ms. Universe
Imagine that there is a massive body (Earth) orbiting a more massive body (Sun) and orbited by a smaller body (Moon); and that, strange...
Just Going through a Phase
Have you ever noticed that you can’t divide the seven days of a week into two equal parts? I water the lawn twice a...
Logging and Clear Cutting
I realized a day or so ago that our society uses the word “logging” to refer to at least two distinct activities. Our forest...
What we don’t know
I’m been feeling inadequate and overwhelmed by the pain and confusion that periodically sweeps through my family and for which the latent threat of...
The Die is not yet Cast.
“We have complete control in the special sense that we do not need to control anything. Whether emotions and circumstances control us or we...
Can We Trust What We Know?
There is a certain kind of knowledge that has risen to the top of the knowledge food chain in our world. This kind of...