3.14 Well, π (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) has now been calculated to 31.4 trillion digits. That's a lot of digits! And represents significant progress, I suppose, towards the completion of an ultimately impossible task (viz. the decimal representation of an irrational number). But fun nevertheless. Estimates are that it would take somewhere in the neighborhood of …
Nonduality
How Is It?
How is it I can love You within me, yet see You from afar? How is it I embrace You within myself, yet see You spread across the heavens? You know. You alone. You, who made this mystery, You who shine like the sun in my breast, You who shine in my material heart, immaterially. ~ Symeon the New Theologian (trans. Ivan Granger) * …
Science Takes A Peek
Here Dean Radin describes a series of experiments that exemplify a vigorous application of the scientific method to questions around the relationship between consciousness and matter: specifically, the collapse of the wave function in double-slit experiments. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSBaq3vAeY …
Practice Notes: Directed Thought & Evaluation
Weather Report This phrase—directed thought and evaluation—has been popping into my mind, as of late, largely in relation to renewed interest in questions of agency, choice, volition, intention, and so-called free will. I’ve contemplated these issues previously, and recorded my provisional conclusions in Do I Choose My Thoughts?—which I invite you to check out, if you haven’t already. It’s an …
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Unbroken
Like The Prow Of A Boat "Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat: It cleaves the water, yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken." Is this not one of the best-ever grasshopper teaching moments!? Let's explore this image in a bit more depth--but first, here it is in all its glorious original context ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDZOa1rEp0 Leaving No Trace This image--of the …
Q & A
Lal Dĕd Goes Riding The following two verses--a question and its answer--are excerpted from I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd. This collection of Lalla's poems--translated beautifully by Ranjit Hoskote--is one of my favorites: for its informative and insight notes, as much as for the poems themselves. 78 Shiva's the horse and Vishnu's the saddle, Brahma's cheering at the stirrup. Only the …