He talks about back in the day. Thousands of years ago, back in the day. The powers we had. The wizard wars. Balls of energy shot through the air by people with deep knowledge of an inner world we’ve locked behind prison bars of scripture. If the ancient times sound familiar, sound modern and post-modern, […]
Boy howdy, we sure do talk a lot about selflessness on this website. Heck, we talk about it in everyday conversation, right? Although usually in everyday conversation, what we mean by that word selfless is that someone did something unselfish. On the surface, there is a distinction between that definition of selfless and how we […]
It’s time. Time for simplicity. Time for practicality. No heady essay here. Mostly. Until the end. Sorry in advance. Or sorry for the rest of it if simplicity isn’t your thing. … ahem … What comes to mind when you think of communing with Nature? Does it involving sitting quietly under a tree deep in […]
What is a vow? What does it mean to make or take a vow? A vow is a promise, a pledge to dedicate oneself to something. Given that, how can we say that a vow is a choiceless choice? Did I, myself, not make a decision in the moment after my big enchilada experience that […]
Many who understand that enlightenment cannot be possessed because it is the dissolution of the possessor turn to the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva to help dissolve themselves. A bodhisattva is one who experiences nirvana—the selfless state free of suffering—but refuses the call to live in that freedom so that he or she may help […]