Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion.
Category: Philosophy
For me, the transformation began at 49, when I started my quest for that first marathon. To some extent, it was a rebirth or a
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