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Category Archives: Reflections
Tibet’s Tragedy: A Culture Teetering into Oblivion
The horror began with the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1949. In the decades since, Chinese oppression has continued relentlessly, with several hundred thousand Tibetans having been executed, tortured or imprisoned. Commenting after her recent release, one survivor informs us … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections
Tagged Amnesty International, Buddhism, Dalai Llama, Larung Gar, Lhasa, Stephen Batchelor, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism
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Weighing-in: Reflections on 2016
When I was in my twenties, I used to keep a running account of what were good and bad years for me. Call it an exercise in ego, or whatever, I still like to weigh each year at its end. … Continue reading
Teach me to measure all my days
Another year, now one of many for me, is about to pass. Life flows incessantly forward. More than ever, I’m thankful for every moment in the present, wanting to indulge, pamper, and exhaust it for its sensory fullness, or like … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reflections
Tagged contingency, longevity, mindfulness, Poetry, randomlesslness, Stephen Batchkelor
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Leap Frogging
I continue to read Shinzen Young (The Science of Enlightenment), and always with the thrill of discovery. No one, and I mean no one, has opened up the insides of mindfulness meditation more for me. You know you’re keeping good … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Psychology, Reflections
Tagged counseling, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science ofEnlightenment
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Live Longer Now
It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Calco, death, immortality, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment, Vector
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New England Memories
Sometimes a long delay gives you better perspective. I hadn’t been back home to New England in eleven years until our recent trip. Thinking of Thomas Wolfe’s dictum, “You can’t go home again,” I didn’t really know if my previous … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged Boston, Fenway Park, Maine, New England, Ogunquit, Prudential Center, Rowley, York Beach
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Memorial Day: “Neither shall they learn war any more”
Tomorrow once again commemorates Memorial Day, when we fittingly honor those who forfeited their lives for our country. I think of the Civil War with its estimated 600,000 deaths and World War II with another calamitous toll of 400,000. And … Continue reading
On finding a new booklist quarry
I confess I’m addicted to booklists. No sooner do I finish one book, but I’m into another. What surprises me is that I can’t remember anyone in my family serving as a role model when I was a child, either … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reflections
Tagged Aaron Hicklin, authors Brain Pickings, booklists, books, new york times style magazine, onegrandbooks.com, writers, writing
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Apple vs. the FBI: How Money May Decide the Issue
Things are really heating up these days in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the FBI. In December, fourteen people were killed by ISIL sympathizers Farook Malik and his wife Taskeen, in San Bernardino, CA. In the aftermath, the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Apple, Bernie Sanders, Congress, contributions to members of Congress, FBI, ISIL, ISIS, mass shootings, pacs, San Bernardino, terrorism, Tim Cook
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Brimmings: Five Years and Counting
I’ve been keeping my blog, Brimmings, for five years now, never realizing when I began that I would pursue it for so long, initially undertaking it to assuage my wrestlings with serious illness at the time, or as diversion from … Continue reading
