Thursday, June 28, 2018

Defining Terms and Filling in Gaps.

For a minute, let's remember that wisdom is “Transmitted.” Not for nothing do Buddhist teachers speak of the “Lineage” their teaching is a part of. When a disciple cannot locate the a living tradition to reference, some wise figure from outside ...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

A Revised View of Time: Christian Reincarnation Revisited


To start a sentence with “I believe” and end it with “in Christian reincarnation” is perhaps, at this point, more than I’m ready to commit to.  I, myself, have no recollection of past lives. If we see time as linear, the sheer number of myriad ...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

On Trendy Brunch Spots and the Dark Night of the Self

I met the Hafe, and his wife of two weeks, at one of Greenville, South Carolina's trendy farm-to-fork brunch joints. By accident of providence, my “college best friend”--the Hafe himself--and one of my two “monastery best friends” both lived in ...
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