A Pure World
“In this pure world, there is no sense of loss and of complicity in loss.” Dynamics of Time and Space, by Tarthang Tulku. This...
Tag: light
Appreciation in the Midst of it All
“The real mystery is not somewhere else. It’s right here in what we call reality, or truth, or daily life. It’s in confusion and...
I Wish I Knew
I wonder why the light feels so painful. Is it a migraine coming on? Or is it that when you’re being interrogated by police...
Maybe Light My Fire
In the natural world, or at least when human ingenuity impinges upon it, we see moths flying into candle flames and hovering around porch...
BE the Squirrel (3 by Ken McKeon)
Thanks, Nancy You want the news. Well, out back a dying tree Found a degree of New life with late springtime rain, I mean...
“Time—Enter Stage Right”
“But the plan of action is determined And the end irrevocably sealed. I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood: Life is not...
Do Dolphins Dream of Eclectic Sleep?
Like sharks, dolphins cannot experience REM sleep. For different reasons, neither species can ever fall asleep in comfortable stillness, and leave their day time...
An Open Secret
I sometimes imagine that I have been let in on a secret about the meaning and purpose of human life—but that I only have...
Freedom of Mind, Mind of Freedom
I doubt that I’m the only one who has felt like the mouse in Kafka’s “A Little Fable”: “ALAS”, said the mouse, “the world...
Coming Ashore
Was it a bad move to come ashore? Has humanity benefited from leaving home, and setting up shop on the shoreline? The daily news...