Money and the Crisis of Civilization
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In the face of the impending crisis, people ask what they can do to protect themselves. "Buy gold?" "Stockpile canned goods?" I would like to suggest a different kind of question: "What is the most beautiful thing I can do?" This is an updated version of the popular article we first published on October 3, 2008.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, or Mind as Metaphor
Many spiritually-inclined people dismiss what they call "Western philosophy" as inferior to what they designate "Eastern thought," or "indigenous spirituality." But I would offer that this dismissal, to borrow a phrase from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, "does not reflect correct understanding." They have not understood mind as metaphor.
Real Genius
In this recent TED Talk, Elizabeth Gilbert explores the notion that rather than a person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius available to us. [Video]
