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When Everything Happens NOW: The Interplay of Time, Timing and Technology
Via High Existence M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i. Tick. M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i. Tock. And on and on… and on and on it goes. Time. It’s linear, chronological and calendrical. It used to have its own tower, then moved to our wrists, and since the middle of the 20th century has been digitally scored by our tools. It’s whole existence obeys a precise sequentiality […]
Q&A on Today’s Chinese Moon Festival with Our Friend from Hangzhou
Today is one of China’s most important and widely celebrated holidays: Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival. Families gather once darkness falls and sit together, looking at the moon and eating mooncakes with tea. They give thanks for the Fall harvest and for each other. Mooncakes are small in area but they’re rich […]
This Too Shall Pass
“Everything passes, everything.” ~ Anthony de Mello from Awareness Ah, impermanence. Everything passes. Reminds me of Abraham Lincoln and my Vipassana meditation teacher, S.N. Goenka. First, Goenka: One of the key ideas during my 10-day silent Vipassana meditation experience was the idea of Anicca—a Pali word that means “impermanence.” Life is change and we suffer when we […]
The Artist’s Rituals
Daniel Sidell, an art curator, connects art to the spiritual world. Although an artist is free to do and make anything in the studio, she has a responsibility to do something. And that requires tremendous discipline and the willingness to ask the most fundamental questions. Each day she goes into the studio asking: “Who am […]