When JFK spoke the words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” an entire nation understood.
Category: Philosophy
I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to me to be too local, too provincial.
I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there
I’ve written in the past that Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion. As with most generalizations,