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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Are you a constantly reconfiguring collection? Are you the space, the awareness? Are you nothing at all? Are you everything? In the face of these questions you fall silent, for there are no answers.
Ken I. McLeod • Reflections on Silver River
Either viewed through the dharma or through science, the fundamental condition of reality is wholeness, interrelatedness. This immense, interlinked, commonly hidden world is the realm where our actions play out. Knowing we are intimately connected to this bigger reality upholds our faith as we take action in the world.
Sharon Salzberg • Faith
What it is like to be us, in our full humanity—this isn’t out there in the interwebs. It isn’t stored in any archive, and the neural networks cannot be inward with what it feels like to be you, right now, looking at these words, looking away from these words to think about your life and our lives, turning from all this to your day and to what you w... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Normally, we cling to an intuitive sense of being “me,” but we can come to see that the sense of me is nothing more than a set of stories in the mind. Together they conjure up a kind of genie—“Me.” That is to say, the sense of me is not as stable or solid as we take it to be, and depends on an implicit narrative repeatedly generated by our thinking
... See moreHenry Shukman • Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening
do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
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