Saturday, April 1

 Several people have told me that they found the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once quite chaotic and hard to keep up with. Some cursory Googling reveals that the directors did apparently have in mind the metaverse as metaphor for internet overload (which, let’s face it, is a significant factor these days): “Written in 2016, “Everything Everywhere” was in part a product of the contradictions and emotional whiplash of being…

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One Buddhist’s take on the movie I like starting my meditations by remembering impermanence ‘cos it focuses my mind very efficiently. First I ask myself: “If I die today, where will I be tomorrow?” Or where do…

Everything is fleeting. Life is surprisingly short. Things can and do continually disappear because they are only appearance to begin with. These thoughts are often on my mind, and not least at the moment because I’ve had…

Several friends and relatives have died in the last two months. Only yesterday my aunt Rachel died – if I had just a few words to describe her it would be as one of life’s innocents, generous…

Shortly after I first arrived in Colorado I was driving through the Rockies, nature at its finest, when out of nowhere arose an enormous apartment block. I thought I was dreaming (which I was, as always); but,…

There is nothing like sitting up a mountain in clear skies to help us remember the endless space of emptiness that pervades all things; but we can do it anywhere. Up this mountain I am cat-sitting for…

An article co-written by a friend and me.  One of Buddha Shakyamuni’s qualities is that he has love and compassion without discrimination. Sometimes we fantasize…

If there’s a silver lining to our strange pandemic days, it could be that someone invented accessible live-streaming just in time. Most of us…

I just failed my drive test. I was sort of speeding without realizing it, so…

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People’s hearts are good, but ignorance is our greatest enemy and destroys our happiness every single day. Earlier today in…

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