The nature of all phenomena is inherently tranquil, so the Buddhist sutras tell us, and yet this is a tranquillity that we very rarely perceive in everyday life. Instead, the world as we know it is full of strife and...
Continue reading
Technical knowledge is the ‘lower analogue’ of wisdom. In this high-tech world of ours (which we adulate so much) it's all about technical knowledge, of course and technical knowledge is – for us – simply a ‘means to an end’....
Continue reading
We tend to think that we are extracting the maximum amount of information when we measure and tabulate everything, when we define and classify everything in sight so as to make everything definite or certain, so as to end up...
Continue reading
We degrade life by thinking about it - it's a 'bigger event' than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace, unremarkable, only-to-be-expected, and so on. We might try to tell ourselves that life a big...
Continue reading
