What I most appreciate about Wild Wild Country -- the Netflix documentary about Osho's Oregon community -- is that it poses all variety of interesting questions (social, psychological, spiritual, legal, constitutional) while resisting the temptation to offer heavy-handed answers to any of them. It's a fascinating -- and in moments, quite mind-blowing -- story, with lines between the "good guys" …
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Ode To Bone Broth
To Wit It's been a while since last I explored a nutrition-related topic .... so today I'll offer this quick nod to bone broth, with its superhero constituents: gelatin and collagen. Even among my vegan and vegetarian friends, quite a few are making an exception (or are seriously considering doing so) for bone broth, whose proven and anecdotal health benefits span far and wide. To wit: a good …
Honk, Haiku, Happy: Practice Notes
Honk Was driving through a parking lot, a few days back, making my way slowly toward the lot’s exit, where it emptied onto the adjacent street. Understanding the potential dangers of parking lots – with all the cars and pedestrians and often limited visibility – I was being cautious, though also relaxed enough to be contemplating, in a general way, my intentions for the rest of the day. On my …
Exploring The Universality Of Awareness
Nuggets Of Pure Gold: Introduction To Shankara Oh how I love these old first editions of books out of India – this one published in 1969 by Calcutta’s Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, with the generous title of Introduction To Shankara: Being parts of Shankara’s commentary on the Brahma Sutras rendered freely into English. Its pages are yellowed and musty-smelling – and contain nuggets of pure …
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Seeing Avatar
Last week I saw the movie Avatar - in 3D at an IMAX theatre. Highly recommended. I had never before been to an IMAX theatre, nor had I ever seen a movie wearing 3D glasses - so the experience was rather over-the-top in terms of sensory stimulation - but thoroughly enjoyable, nevertheless. Avatar has been criticized for its simplistic and not at all unique plot - which is basically a version of …
Meaningfreeness
Even though I've yet to arrive at page one (just xvi of the Introduction) already I'm greatly enjoying David Loy's Lack And Transcendence, whose lengthy and rather ponderous subtitle -- The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism -- sums up nicely what his overall project is, viz. to place into conversation three fields of inquiry that often remain quite separate. …