I am taking a short vacation from the blog. Nothing serious; just a few days.
I’ll be back on December 31st with a new question of the week: What is Compassion? It will be posted in response to the current article over at Urbanmonk.net called:
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What if there were no more questions?
What if tomorrow you woke as Gregor Samsa, but instead of being transformed into an insect, something entirely different occurred?
What if there were no more questions? Try as you might they will not come. All of your questions about enlightenment, all of your questions about god, and all of [...]
Please enjoy the video below. Narration by Carl Sagan.
It is quite true that this is all we have.
The other night, I was on the train with Akiko. We may have been on the Yamanote line, coming back from her work. She told me about her day. I listened.
I looked out the window and could see the people standing on the platform waiting for the next train. As the train pulled out, leaving [...]
Question of the Week: 12/10 - 12/16
“You have said that there is nothing to search for, but isn’t all of this questioning a search as well?”
Yes and no.
As Takuin goes about his day, there are no questions asked, apart from “technical” questions, i.e., I wonder what time the next train arrives? OR Should I put [...]
Usually, during the Question of the Week, we go into fairly heavy subjects, which may have the effect of twisting the brain in knots. It is not to create any kind of enigma wrapped in a riddle nonsense, but normal means of knowledge retrieval do very little in finding out on the deepest levels.
But today, [...]