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December 2016

December 13, 2016

Can I Play For You?

The priest said we should visit the Baby Jesus and bring him some gifts. I...

December 10, 2016

Irrationality and Complacency

The creature who learns and transmits language, who builds civilizations, and who can manipulate physical...

December 07, 2016

Mary and Joseph and the Baby

He explained apologetically to me that they just needed someplace to rest awhile and then...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

And God Saw That It Was Good

The Book of Genesis, starts with the word “B’reshit”. But “B’reshit” does not mean “In...

November 22, 2016

Self-Compassion – Why Is It So Hard?

Just the words "identity theft" can raise our anxiety level. But, there is a much...

November 15, 2016

John Smith Do You Really Think You’re Hamlet?

What if you were to recognize that reality, this concatenation of concentric levels of life,...

November 08, 2016

I Want Your Ego on A Platter!

Each one of us must attempt to find the ideal way to identify our Buddha...

November 02, 2016

Time and Immortality

For most of our history, since humans began thinking beyond the next meal or the...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

We Are Supernatural

The human subject pausing from the mundane vicissitudes of waking existence to reflect even briefly...

October 13, 2016

Our Children – What Can We Promise Them?

Each of us comes with a unique story to tell, with a piece of the...

October 04, 2016

Reincarnation, Amnesia and Prejudice – Kissin’ Cousins

The Great Spirit spoke to him in a series of inner visions that rocked him...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

The Mother of All Illusions

I have long been intrigued by the (perhaps naïve) fantasy that, somewhere upstream, most human...

September 20, 2016

Practicing The Sacred Art of Dying

I have spent a lifetime of earth-years preparing for death, but the preparation has been...

September 15, 2016

Challenges for the King

"The transformation in consciousness required to address global issues can be a joyful one, but...

September 06, 2016

Justice Without Judgment – Navigating an “Unjust” World

Our sense of fairness is a basic part of us from our earliest memories. We...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Cosmos 201 – The Psychic and The Zen Buddhist Monk

Just then the carriage lights went out for a few moments, as subway lights sometimes...

August 23, 2016

Cosmos 101 – The Mother, The Baby and The Neurosurgeon

Are black holes in space the annihilators of matter they are reputed to be?

August 16, 2016

Is Greed a Natural, Fundamental Human Trait?

What is it that drives the seeming limitless, insatiable nature of greed?

August 09, 2016

The Hillock of The Oak Tree of The Avatars

In Gaelic, a Caol Áit (a thin place) is a location in which the veil...

August 03, 2016

The Aliens Are Buddhas

A super-advanced being or civilization simply will not on the one hand have amazing powers...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Divinity 201 – A Sensible God

My God used to be very "sensible." As a boy I encountered him frequently. Every...

July 19, 2016

Divinity 101 – A God Built in Our Image and Likeness

It is so difficult for us to imagine a love that is not confined to...

July 13, 2016

Rationality and Faith – Where the Human and the Divine Meet

How are rationality and faith different? Can they co-exist in the human mind?

July 05, 2016

The Deeper Roots of Terrorism

Violence is not inevitable in human nature, but neither is a willingness to quietly, politely...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Sleepers, Bodhisattvas and Mysticists

The illusion is not that the physical world does not exist; the illusion is that...

June 21, 2016

“Waking Life”, Reality, Cause-and-Effect, and Other Musings

Lack of control and predictability often makes dreams disturbing, whereas the opposite enables waking "reality"...

June 15, 2016

The Violence in Orlando: Yet More Sacrificial Lambs

For years, with each new tragedy, I had been telling myself that when things got...

June 14, 2016

To Abide in Gratitude

The content of mindfulness, the visceral experience that accompanies mindfulness, is gratitude for life and...

June 07, 2016

“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” – Embracing Honesty in Relationships

“I don’t think I know you anymore. Maybe I never did.” When relationships end, these...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Celtic Spirituality 301 – The Leaven and the Diaspora

Both the “Dark Ages” and Puritanical Protestantism had large shadow sides. Celtic spirituality provided the...

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