Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude | Tricycle
Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude - Pema Chödrön walks us through Shantideva's prescription for solitude, verse by verse.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
the brain - a user's manual
As thinking beings we are how the Universe is becoming conscious of its(our)self.
So don’t waste your brain by driving it like a crawling sportscar forever in first gear.
Where can we find a user’s manual for the brain?
Thursday, May 05, 2011
concept cobbling
I no longer have ‘lessons’ ready to deliver. These days I prefer dialogue. It is not as if there is a truth out there - it is a matter of individual brains (existences) cobbling together a few stray inputs from genes, culture and serendipity. (Clark)
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
apprehend religion
"Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.
Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow."
- William James
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
to the woods
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
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