It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.
I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way.
I make some jokes about it, but they’re not funny and just add to the depression.
He became aware that the doctrinal differences among Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars ar...
Drifting is what one does
Degeneracy can be fun but it’s hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.
Dad? What? A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. What should I be when I grow up? The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don’t know what to say. Honest, I finally say.
And so in recent times we have seen a huge split develop between a classic culture and a romantic counterculture—two worlds growingly alienated and hateful toward each other with everyone wondering if...
Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the...
The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris c...
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Но да се унищожи една фабрика или да се въстане срещу едно правителство, или да не се поправи един мотоциклет, защото е система, означава да се атакуват следствията, а не причините; и докато борбата е...
That Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife. The sun of quality, he wrote, does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not...
You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.
When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it’s a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and agai...
What was behind this smug presumption that what pleased you was bad or at least unimportant in comparison to other things? … Little children were trained not to do just what they liked’ but … but what...
What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of understanding and unites them into one.
What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a ki...
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.