An Outpost From A Complex World

I'll be the first to admit I don't want the year to end on the tone of my last post. But I also feel the post was necessary for...

A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begu...

I'm not sure that this post has anything to do with happiness or saving the human race, but since the comment I submitted has not been...

To preserve the sequence for individuals who have not read the recent comments at  Mining Aśvaghoṣa's Gold, I'm going to reproduce...

The following is a comment I submitted to Mike Cross of   Mining Aśvaghoṣa's Gold (a link to that site is over on the sidebar) . Given...

Detachment -- it's a good practice. I don't think, however, that it's possible to live a full life as a human being if a pers...

W hat I’m going to say next relates a little to Uchiyama’s (and, therefore, possibly Okumura’s) thinking and, if I hadn’t run short of ti...

I was going to call this post something along the lines of "I am not a Buddhist and I have a distaste for religion." I'm hopin...

Religions have made me uncomfortable since my mid-teens. Although I can cite a number of reasons, the important one for this post is th...

When any person who has been sitting for awhile has the realization that everything in the Universe is interconnected by the same awaren...