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September 2015

September 30, 2015

Capital Punishment Is A Barbaric Human Sacrifice Ritual

By the time you read this, despite two judges of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal...

September 29, 2015

The Buddha Was A Handsome Man — Should a Female Dalai Lama Be A Lovely Lady?

If he believes that the Buddha was a good-looking guy, who used supernatural means to...

September 26, 2015

There Is No Such Thing as “Cultural Appropriation”

Laziness, dishonesty, plagiarism and -- sometimes -- disrespect are failings to be avoided. But copying...

September 23, 2015

Prometheus, Makers, and Ahmed’s Clock

I've been thinking of Prometheus, thief and teacher, trickster and benefactor of mankind. I've been...

September 01, 2015

Are People Any Damn Good?

But over-engineering the garden ruins the fruit, give us those cardboard supermarket genetically-engineered tomatoes instead...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

We Live For Beauty

Why do we live?

August 26, 2015

Truth, Beauty, and Lunatics

In those moments I feel like I had no choice, in the same way that...

August 20, 2015

You Can Start Again

If there's something that you wanted to do in the past but never did --...

August 06, 2015

Hiroshima: A New Way for Humanity to Sin

All throughout the massacres of the 20th century, but most especially on that day of...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Psychedelics Aren’t Zen — But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Bad

If this sort of experience is the goal of Zen practice, and if the psychedelic...

July 18, 2015

You Don’t Make the Grass Grow By Pulling On It

Zen teacher and punk rocker Brad Warner recently posted a piece titled "Don't Try to...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Screw You, Ancestors

If the heritage you receive from an ancestor is one of hatred or ignorance or...

June 19, 2015

The Touchy Subject of Touch

Not every instance of touch is a threat to one's boundaries. The stranger who bumps...