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the four thoughts that revolutionize the mind: second and fourth thoughts....
So I got some sleep and some coffee and reread the third chapter of Sachs’ The Buddha at War (and that apostrophe at the end of Sachs indicating possession? that used to be grammatical. I was taught...
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the four thoughts that revolutionize the mind: thought three revisited. then...
I had meant to come back and finish the fourth thought last night but I ended up doing something else. what was it? oh. I shaved and showered. wo0t! I need to finish The Buddha at War because I think...
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the four thoughts. the last thought, I promise.
ahhh. whatever other life forms there may be in this universe or in other universes, I hope they are able to experience something as unambiguously and uncomplicatedly Good as cool sparkling water....
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Blowing it
This was what I was going to post on the 11th after I had been on the train all day sleeping but I fell asleep in the middle of writing it. Sometimes sleep just leads to more sleep–you know how that...
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jim broadcast. opt to descend.
"why did you watch it if you did not like it." "I thought you liked it." Continue reading »
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excerpt
why should garishness get all the glory if making the bed is not its own courageous act what with danger beating softly across the loose weave of the very blanket which takes care of you at night....
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(ex) teaching manifesto
in order to address the experiences of another, we must humble ourselves before their complexity and before our own. We might use what we know of our experiences to empathize with another, but it is...
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Rootlessness and restlessness in white America
I've been thinking for a long time about my own sense of almost complete alienation from the white Protestant suburbanism I myself came from and that is often thought of as the neutral American...
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an ontological category of one's own
I realized that in the reams of cultural histories that have been written, at least in any language that I can currently understand, the universe is assumed to rest upon eternal principles that almost...
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Why we have ethical questions but not answers
We do live in a discursively constituted, culturally mediated environment as postmodern Westerners and narrative does tend to be where one looks when one is trying to discern the grounds of classical...
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