Effective altruism
Peter Singer talks on TED about effective altruism
Always Already Free
I sit here looking out, filled with an emptiness that spills over and keeps on spilling. There is no end to this boundlessness, this delicious thrill of Presence. Nothing can contain it, for everything is…
A benevolent and just ruler
A ruler exercising benevolence and justice will surely win the support and help of most people; if he fails to do so, the people will be absolved of all loyalty to him. Mecinus
The teaching of a Sage
Someone who understands the teaching of sages is a sage. Someone who understands the teaching of mortals is a mortal. A mortal who can give up the teaching of mortals and follow the teaching of…
Caterpillars and Polliwogs
Caterpillars weave cocoons, polliwogs form from cells; eventually the cocoons break open to produce moths, the cells develop to produce frogs. What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of liberative transformation of…
The Crane and the Tortoise
The crane is good at nurturing the spirit, so it lives for a thousand years. The tortoise is good at nurturing energy, so it can survive a century without food. What I realize as I…
Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
The author Malcolm Gladwell tell a wonderful story of new science. Malcolm Gladwell books
Flock Instinct
Links Iain Couzin at Princeton icouzin.princeton.edu Steven Strogatz on sync tedtalk
I am like the clear blue sky
I am like the clear blue sky Standing on the earth I look up into the sky Suspended in mid air Time is of no importance My mother is always near Resting in the clear…
All truths wait in all things
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, What…
A riddle for your fiddle
Here is a litte riddle for your imagination. What is the image representing?
The world according to me
Me, me, me.. and puff I am gone!
Suchness
In Buddhism,the word “suchness” is used to mean “the essence or particular characteristics of a thing or a person, its true nature.” Each person has his or her suchness. If we want to live in…
Our Life Is a Work of Art
After a retreat in southern California, an artist asked me,“What is the way to look at a flower so that I can make the most of it for my art?” I said, “If you look…
Meditation and Wisdom
Fellow students of the Way, be careful. Don’t think that meditation comes first and then gives rise to wisdom or that wisdom comes first and then gives rise to meditation or that meditation and wisdom…
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