Even for people adept at the art of methodless meditation, ‘the beginner’s mind’ can have the connotation of someone just learning how to meditate, a novice. It can imply someone…
Martin LeFevre
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An animated CNN announcer, echoing the conventional view, pronounced the mind-boggling overlap of a once in a hundred years meteor strike in Russia, which injured hundreds of people, and a…
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If you listened carefully to President Obama’s laundry list of policy pronouncements in his State of the Union address, you heard the forced enthusiasm of a mediocre man. The policies…
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When attention gathers in passive observation, every thought, feeling and sensation are seen and held in awareness. That action in turn effortlessly ends the entire movement of memory, thought and…
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A leading and loud ‘progressive’ voice of the new generation, sounding chillingly like the right-wingers of the Bush-Cheney Administration, recently said on ‘The Cycle:’ “If we have people working against…
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Twice yesterday, once at the corner café and later at the local brewery, I heard someone evince a strong whiff of misanthropy. The first was from a studious older fellow who’s…
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It was the strangest and most beautiful sky I’ve ever seen. After witnessing three dramatic changes in weather within an hour, I stood transfixed looking back on the sycamore under…
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Neuroscientists and cutting edge computer developers are in the early stages of building a “bridge between flesh and chip.” Chillingly, promoters speak of a “brave new world” of thought-controlled machines–in…