Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote, “I would not give a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Does complexity both come from and lead to simplicity? Isn’t it a relative scale like light to heavy? A catalytic chemical reaction is [...]
Archives for Nothingness
Now you see it – now you don’t
While I trod my riparian route today my inner musings took a strange turn. I was thinking about the universe and magic. (The strange turn came later.) It seems to me that we all arrive ready for a magic show. From my earliest memories, I can remember welcoming the feeling of being amazed. We want [...]
The Tree of Nothingness
I found a Tree of Knowledge of sorts and have been visiting it daily. For the last few months I have been spending most of my time in nature. On a journey several weeks ago I came across one particular tree. The tree was big and old and, at first glance, looked dead through and [...]
Missing the clothes of reality
First a bit of practical business to share, then on to the missing clothes metaphor. I did not mention in my last post – it was still stinging a bit – but I have been asked to not return to the Chenpo Terma for the time being. So I won’t, or rather, can’t. I know [...]
Dumbfounded
What started out as a review of the movie A Serious Man turned into a Revealing Tangent about the metaphysics of modal primitivism.
Metaphysical Yoga
Yesterday I heard an interview with writer and yoga teacher Matthew Sanford on NPR’s Speaking of Faith. Amazing, gifted person whose body was disabled after a car accident at the age of 13. Check out the following, which is an excerpt he read from his recent memoir Waking: Imagine walking from a well-lit room into [...]