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The Zen of Woody Allen
From a recent interview: It’s just an accident that we happen to be on earth, enjoying our silly little moments, distracting ourselves as often as possible so we don’t have to really face up to the fact that, you know, … Continue reading
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Three Religiously-Charged Jokes and a True Story That Functions Like a Joke
For a bit of flavoring, I tell these three religiously-charged jokes a tad differently from where I stumbled on them (see here). They’re pretty good, I think. How do fundamentalists drive agnostics from a neighborhood? They burn question marks on … Continue reading
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Freud’s Oceanic Feeling Associated with Brain Damage!
During meditation or prayer, have you ever had what Freud called (picking up the term from Romain Rolland) an “oceanic feeling“? In other words, have you felt your “little self” (the shrew of your ego) submerging harmoniously into the “Big Self”—the Atman—or the universe? Well, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhagavad Gita, elton john, Freud, harmony, meditation, mind, ocean, reductionism, science, spirtuality, yoga, Zen
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The Present is Where Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr Meet? An Intriguing New Theory of the Block Universe!
And it might even preserve free will. Technology Review (published by MIT) reports today that two physicists have a new idea about what it means to live in a block universe: Today, Ellis and Rothman introduce a significant new type of block … Continue reading
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“The Road”: The Movie is Better than the Book?
This looks promising. Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road (2006), has been turned into a film, and a review in Salon suggests that the movie is actually better, on balance, than the book. That doesn’t happen every day. Here’s what Salon’s … Continue reading
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Tagged cormac mccarthy, film, life, literature, movies, philosophy, silence, stillness, the road, writing, yoga, Zen
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I Like This Matt Stone and Trey Parker Introduction to Alan Watts
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Tagged 1960s, agnosticism, alan watts, atheism, atheist, Buddhism, eastern philosophy, philosophy, religion, south park, Zen
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I Love Terence McKenna
He died of a brain tumor a few years back, but he was always a wonderfully engaging thinker and speaker. I went to one of his talks in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, and Roy of Hollywood used to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, hippies, meditation, paranormal, psychedelics, terence mckenna, yoga, Zen
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Knowing When to Be Quiet is a Part of Growing Up
Translation: Get with the program, shut up, conform, and obey. In my whisper voice, can I recite the First Amendment?
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Tagged authority, first amendment, free speech, freedom, meditation, obedience, protest, question authority, quiet, school, Zen
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Quote of the Day
The Dalai Lama on the relation of his religion to science: If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Christianity, dalai lama, evolution v. creation, religion, science, science v. religion, young earth creationism, Zen
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What’s It All About? See Here?
If it were evening, and you were sitting beneath a full moon with a Zen priest, and you asked him what the universe’s ultimate meaning is, he might simply point you to the moon. But what if you were sitting on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, earth, existentialism, meditation, moon, philosophy, psychology, Reinhold Niebuhr, science, universe, yoga, Zen
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“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry David Thoreau)
Escaping from freedom into the ecstasy of resignation and submission (1967): Or another way to look at it: “Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness” (R. Hall).
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Mental Health Break for a Sunday
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Atheists Too Sing America! The Atheist Bus Campaign Comes to Indiana
I like the groovy hippie vibe the ad gives off. It seems to me a slogan less dubious and preachy than the British one (“Now stop worrying, etc.”). In fact, due to this particular ad’s curtness (“You can be good without God”) … Continue reading
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“What the Zen Teacher Said” (A Poem by Santi Tafarella)
Though mists of morning go gently whirling, they’ll soon be worming in granite cracks. And there they’ll freeze, with night expand, in stony-love untie old bands and apple- split your rocks
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The Makers of South Park Illustrate an Alan Watts Anecdote on “Life as Music”
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Notice What You Notice: Vipassana Meditation in a Credence Clearwater Revival Song
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Zen Meditation Break with Alan Watts: Gooey Prickles and Prickly Goo
Alan Watts was a former Anglican priest turned scholar of Japanese Zen. An icon of the 1960s counter-culture, Watts used to go around giving spontaneous and magical lectures at American college campuses, turning-on students to Eastern forms of reflection and meditation. … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 