There is something about those that die in the service of seeking, in the process of wayfinding. I have always been a kid entranced by space, born as I was a month before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. I am a child of the space age, and my eyes are often on the sky looking marvelling at the jewelbox of possibility and scale that enfolds us. And so the deaths of astronauts are always a little bit like the death of a small part of me, the part that always wanted to go to space. It’s not as if …
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From my new read, gassho, Jack writes an elegant summary of the roots of six major religions: Lunch today with Koshin Ogui who heads Chicago’s Midwest Buddhist temple. He suggests that religion is at the root of our political and cultural worldviews and that there are two genres of religions — mountain-field religions (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism) and desert religions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity). The ethos of desert religions is survival by resisting and opposing nature — the dualistic perspective; the ethos of mountain-field religions is survival by being in harmony with nature — the oneness perspective. Maybe, maybe not, but it …