Observations

I recall sitting in math class looking at the clock. Time stood still… minutes felt like hours. Time also crawls by sitting in the dentist chair. Now in my late 70’s, time flies by. Years feel like months, months like weeks, and weeks like days. Certain activities make time fly by too. A sound sleep […]

A Centertao member recently said on the Forum, “Philosophers see a subtle difference between two anti-Realist philosophies: “Dialectical Monism” and “Non-Dualism”. Well, I don’t doubt it! It is difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to communicate things as simply as they are. The difficulty lies in subtle semantic differences. Oddly, we readily discount this, the […]

Butterflies have wings and fly; we have a mind and our thoughts soar. So far so good. The trouble crops up from trusting that our thoughts get us somewhere real. Any resulting belief easily leads to difficulty. When you believe the dream is real, nightmares are more likely. Granted the mind can drive us crazy, […]

Science gradually debunks long held myths. It relentlessly peels away the cosmetic ideals with which we adorn ourselves. Warm-up your contemplative mind with this excerpt from a recent Science News report, Body In Mind. (Also Google: Grounded cognition) It takes another step towards taking the ‘sapiens’ out of Homo sapiens (Latin: sapiens = wise man). […]

I just came across this little diagram I drew up a few years back. It’s not a bad way to ponder some elemental issues using a minimum of words. It points to the synergy that exists between these elements. At the center is Meaning / need. I’d probably add fear to that core. Need & […]

Being surrounded by death is life when your dreams are different, being surrounded by life is death when your dreams are eternal. Any preference? Just be between life and death… This CenterTao member’s reply brought Schrödinger’s cat to mind! Google [Schrödinger’s Cat – minutephysics]. What do you think?  

Struggle and contentment are codependent — two sides of the same coin. We must struggle to live, yet we must relax to enjoy living life. As chapter 33 says, He who knows contentment is rich. How does one deal with those two tasks without feeling stressed? Indeed, trying to balance these opposites suggests how we […]

The inflation-adjusted chart (above) covering the last 100 years of the Dow Jones shows the ebb and flow of the stock market. It is easy to see how the highs and the lows follow each other in a natural ebb and flow. As chapter 2 says, The high and the low incline towards each other […]