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January 2016

January 13, 2016

David Bowie: One Wave Sets Thousands In Motion

I never knew David Bowie, was not even a devoted fan, and didn't really have...

January 12, 2016

Fun a Day Continues: Trusting Your Own Nature

So to twist Pirsig: You want to know how to create worthwhile art? Understand that...

January 10, 2016

Defending the Non-Self

So which self are you going to defend? This is our koan as martial artists,...

January 06, 2016

Fun a Day: “Beggars in the Streets”

Some days I feel like I'm in a Woodie Guthrie song Some men'll rob you...

January 05, 2016

Fun a Day: “Wood Eye” and “sometime well after midnight”

sometime well after midnight but well before the sun comes up I'm not quite sure...

January 04, 2016

Divination and the Power of Story-Telling

Consciousness is story-telling. And the stories it tells are not just about the past, but...

January 01, 2016

The Creative Spirit and “Fun a Day”: “Black Hole Susan”

And one concept, one motivating structure, I've found for that is the "fun a day",...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

The Star Wars Holiday Special and the Banality of Evil

But in the Holiday Special we see stormtroopers ransacking Chewbacca's family's home, throwing items off...

December 17, 2015

The Gifts in Hotei’s Bag — And In Yours

We forget that the things we do are special, because they are ordinary to us.

December 15, 2015

I Don’t Blame You For Being Scared of Guns

Guns, in other words, are supposed to be scary. That's been the idea from the...

December 13, 2015

Death and the Holidays

We sat down to a very subdued Christmas dinner, during which the call came. Leonard...

December 06, 2015

In Praise of the Circular Argument

On the other hand -- and here I freely admit that I am stepping out...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Giving Credit

But there's something related and important that doesn't ask us to fake anything, something specific,...

November 23, 2015

Gratitude, Schmatitude

If you’re feeling angry, grumpy, irritable, frustrated, or grief-stricken, then go ahead and honestly feel...

November 22, 2015

Remembering “Sheriff Scott”

He had worked as a forensic anthropologist, a firefighter, an EMT, a bodyguard, a store...

November 16, 2015

Horrible Events Have Causes

The anger may or may not be justified. The fear may or may not be...

November 09, 2015

Why Time Changes Matter

All of these time changes, from leap seconds to leap years, are reminders that we...

November 07, 2015

Why Men’s Mysteries Matter

But initiation can also be a social phenomenon, in which the initiate is welcomed and...

November 04, 2015

Ten Years Ago Today I Decided To Write A Book

That moment was in November 2005, over a few days during my second trip to...

November 01, 2015

Wearing My Grandfather’s Coat on Samhain

Maybe I left that coat in the closet because I had to grow into it.

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Spirituality, Creativity, and Vitality

And so our friend is living what Thoreau called a life of quiet desperation. Do...

October 21, 2015

Some Zen Pagan Halloween/Samhain Reflections

With the leaves falling from the trees and skittering about in the wind, with the...

October 19, 2015

poem: “this is not a retreat”

I forget again and again and that's difficult but each time I remember I learn...

October 16, 2015

Mysticism Is Not a Retreat to the Womb

The mystic sense is the perception of the beauty of the interconnected and transpersonal. To...

October 14, 2015

All Of Human Folly Summarized In A Few Sentences

Walker recently spoke with BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath, and had this brilliant plan...

October 09, 2015

Poem: “a warm day in october”

some days are good some days you've done your work and you're reading a good...

October 05, 2015

Cultural Appropriation: A Detailed Reply to a Critic

Thank you for starting off honestly with a declaration that you do not believe in...

October 05, 2015

The Cultural Appropriation Controversy: A Summary Reply

There are legitimate arguments that John could raise against what I've written, and we could...

October 01, 2015

Umpqua: Stopping the Spear

On the first Thursday of the month, I usually do a meditation session with my...

October 01, 2015

The “Cultural Appropriation” Brouhaha

The term carries inaccurate (or at least very questionable) assumptions about the specific cases involved,...

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