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Enchiridion Mind Philosophy

Centurion

December 25, 2020November 19, 2022

Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion.

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Body Getting older Human Experience Philosophy Running

Outdoors

January 16, 2022January 17, 2022

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

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Human Experience Mind Nature Philosophy

Dukkha and God

February 19, 2021August 17, 2021

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.

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Mind Philosophy

Sitting

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

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

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