Philosophy

There is a story we read once, in which a Zen Master, or maybe Taoist Disciple, travelled with a cook who was neither useful in the kitchen nor comfortable in the company.  He was rude and short tempered and cross with all servants and noble alike.  Finally, the Master was asked why he kept such&...

No one was ever protected with a lie.  At best, it postpones the pain and robs me of the dignity of the grace I could exhibit if I`m wise enough. Do not lie and say it is for my benefit.  I confront my demons and if you see one and warn me not, whose side…

The only question to ask is this: What can we know for sure? The answer to that, friend, is mighty little, unless you are busy with sciency shit all the live long day.  No, most people do indeed take science on faith, but not in the way that a fundamentalist will say it, you know,…

The Fractal.  It is an amazing representation of mathematical recursion, but it is not just a pretty face.  It is the secret to being able to access you memory in functional ways, I think.  It is the secret to understanding life in a holistic way.  Anecdotally, it seems obvious to me and has for ...

...in honor of the Great Alignment.  To somehow tie it to what I want to write about, and that is to misabuse a business buzzword one of my boss's boss's boss (his name was 'Sir") was very fond of using.  He liked to say that he was aligned with me if he felt he both…

...I am breathing in.  This is mindfulness, taught the Buddha of my youth.  For all I know those words have been rewritten and attributed to someone else by now.  The great thing about living in this fucking post-truth world is that if I find myself growing more and more demented as I deteriorate...