Philosophy
How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion?
For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind.
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Sleeping With Ants
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone.
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We Owe the World our Attention
And our attention can change the world. Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear proliferation — what if we could help change all this with one simple shift in our thinking?
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Tidying up with Zen
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Aikido and Zombies
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt.
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Homeostasis: A Musing
“[Homeostasis is] the fundamental property of life that governs everything that living cells do, whether they’re living cells alone, or…
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