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Post #114: The Deathless
30 May 2024. Maybe so, maybe not. No lion's roar in this one, just my usual cat's meows...
Post #115: Simon Says (Happiness)
6 June 2024. Simon who says what? (If you are expecting child's play, brace yourself. This one turned out long and inconclusive.)
Post #116: The Edge of Chaos
12 June 2024. What could Jordan Peterson, Philippe Petit, and Zarathustra possibly have in common?
Post #117: My Diamond Sutra (Tension)
19 June 2024. I am taking some liberties with the Diamond Sutra here, so let me preface it with a bow to my Mahayana brothers and sisters...
Post #118: The Shadow of the Future (AI)
23 June 2024. The print version of a talk I gave two days ago on concerns about the use of AI in the classroom.
Post #119: Waiting for the Barbarians
25 June 2024. No, not the fur-clad wild men of the past, with their sticks and spears, but a more up-to-date type with an attractive side.
Post #120: Life Is Not an Outcome
30 June 2024. The end of collection is dispersion. The end of rising is falling. The end of meeting is parting. The end of birth is death.
Post #121: The Musk Factor
10 July 2024. Yes, this one really is about Elon Musk, whom I have been ignoring for a full decade; but it's about a lot more, too.
Post #122: Fear and Loathing (The Poison in Political Views)
16 July 2024. A frightfully troublesome piece to write—about the political Shadow we all carry, like it or not. I hope it does some good…
Interlude: Hans the Klutz (A Fairy Tale)
First published by Hans Christian Andersen in 1855. Any resemblance to real situations and persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Post #123: The Unquiet Americans
19 July 2024. Bark-bark-boast, bark-bark-boast, applause, applause!
Post #124: A Cat Not a Tiger (Aporia in London)
28 July 2024. Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night, in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes?
Post #125: A Postcard from Salisbury Cathedral
4 Aug. 2024. Just what the title says: a postcard from an old pilgrimage site.
Post #126: Ancient Greek (Ora et Labora)
10 Aug. 2024. Dominus illuminatio mea.
Post #127: Traveling and the Taoist Clown
13 Aug. 2024. A tearful reflection on a beggar's, or a clown's, "wu wei": going from one mistake and mishap to another with plenty of ado.
Post #128: Homage to the Hotel Orient
15 Aug. 2024. A hotel unlike any other, they say—the last of its kind in Vienna.
Post #130: Of Scars and Suitcases
18 Aug. 2024. The perils of rigid suitcases, combination locks, and traveling by air in the 2020s...
Post #131: Of Questions and Crises
21 Aug. 2024. Being right is one thing—being safe, quite another.
Post #132: The Unbearable Lighting of Berlin
22 Aug. 2024. Nothing to do with lamps or light bulbs.
Post #133: The Flow of Dhamma
30 Aug. 2024. A reflection on spiritual self-reliance and related matters.
Post #134: Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t
2 Sep. 2024. Back to the original theme: on the Path or off, which is it?
Post #135: What Was Equanimity Again?
3 Sep. 2024. The axis on which the Vipassana practice turns, one might say—or rather, the empty axle-hole on which the Wheel of Damma turns.
Post #136: No Future
4 Sep. 2024. Some thoughts on what I do and don't mean when I say that the future looks unreal to me...