We’ve been reflecting on the idea of zen (small “z”) (largely because we recently launched zen garden retreats). Our understanding of zen is that it is another interpretation of “The Way”, that is to say “how the universe works”, which relies on a description of the universe. There is also zen behaviour which refers to …
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When Virtues Are Sins
Have you heard of the seven deadly sins? Can you list them? Many of us have heard of them but can’t list them. They are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. They sound a bit antiquated and somehow resonate with medieval vices decried by angry preachers … Nevertheless they are behaviours that most …
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Faith, Hope and Charity – harbingers of doom
Malta, a small archipelago in the centre of the Mediterranean, has played a pivotal role in the commerce and politics of Europe, Africa and Asia since people travelled across that sea. In the Second World War, as a British colony, Malta was of critical strategic importance to the Allied forces while the right wing military …
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What makes the “God Letter” important.
Written in 1954, when Einstein was 74, the one-and-a-half page response to German philosopher Eric Gutkind was sold at auction for … Three Million Dollars! Give or take. Is $3 million a big number? It seems so to me, but then, crazy people … It certainly drew attention, which is good because of what’s behind …
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