“While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.” It bears repeating that what makes life livable is our ability — our willingness — to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale,…
Obligations to People We Don’t Know “It’s a good thing, protecting other people’s homes.” –Himmel the Hero One of the classic moral problems is the issue of whether we have moral obligations to people we do not know. If we have such obligations, then there are also questions about the foundation, nature and extent of…
“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.” There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are and where our life leads is yet unwritten. Such moments come most readily at the beginning of something new….
American University philosopher Karin Meyers made an important contribution to Buddhist philosophical studies with her 2016 essay “The damned topics of Buddhist philosophy“. The essay (available free online) has never been formally published, though it clearly deserves to be: when I met Meyers recently, she noted that people have already discussed and commented on it…
