There’s a modern tendency to dismiss the five precepts as Sunday-school rules bound to old cultural norms that no longer apply to modern society, but this misses the role that the Buddha intended for them: as part of a course of therapy for wounded minds. https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/NobleStrat

Ryan D. Tweney, professor, book collector, husband, father, and mentor, died February 7 in Pahrump, Nevada, aged 76. Born in Detroit, Ryan was raised by his mother Helene Tweney and grandmother Viola Marciniak, and educated at Cass Technical High School, the University of Chicago, and Wayne State Un

Let’s see, my Latin is poor, but I remember the phrase: “non in tempore sed cum tempore Deus creavit … I do not know what … ordinem mundi.” That means, “Not in time but with time God created the world.” To create the world is to create time. If not, people would ask, what did […]

Nevada sunrise a hot-air balloon floats above the brothel

Happy Poinsettia Season https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bZtuKpDJj/?igshid=rduyt3ymad0h

Every day, priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras. Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. —Ikkyu via Tashi Nyima

Then the celebrity doctor came in, giving off the intensity of a surgeon and the focus of a glassblower. The Age of Instagram Face

In 1936, a woman dreams of a snowy road strewn with watches and jewelery. Tempted to take a piece, she senses a setup by the “Office for Testing the Honesty of Aliens.” How Dreams Change Under Authoritarianism

mood https://www.instagram.com/p/B5_KLEtJjaz/?igshid=5l92egldb1kh

Good morning, #gretathunberg (at JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square) https://www.instagram.com/p/B58P65OJG0t/?igshid=1q2ovvmh7i47c

Alcatraz in the rearview https://www.instagram.com/p/B51M4XzJaxk/?igshid=107fz93jph551

The oceans and cryosphere have been taking the heat of climate change for decades,” says Ko Barrett, the vice chair of the IPCC. “The report highlights the urgency of timely, ambitious, coordinated, and enduring actions. What’s at stake is the health of ecosystems, wildlife, and importantly, the wor