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Who are you? (Part IV)

The social qualities integral to our ancestral hunter-gatherer old way (1) just happen to mirror the core “spiritual” qualities that the world’s religions promote. That’s no coincidence. Indeed, those innate qualities of harmony we now seek are the very ones we lost when we left the old way for the alluring material benefits and security […]

What Climate Catastrophy?

In the mid 80’s much in science was pointing to a looming climate catastrophe. I stressed over this for a few years and then felt… Que Sera, Sera. I see now, 30 years later, that it is going down just like the computer models indicated. These models were not warning of climate warming per se. […]

Straight Poop on the Paleo Diet

This Science News’ story, Neanderthals reveal their diet with oldest excrement caught my eye. The shifting and mixed opinion on diets finally drove me in the late 70’s to look outside the box and seek insight from nature for clues to the optimum diet for our species. I spent weeks at the central library in […]

Fear & Need Born in Nothing

Fear and need are the underlying principle for most of my observations. I know this rationale often raises more questions than it answers, so more clarification is in order. Not that I haven’t tried before… see Fear is the Bottom Line and One who speaks does not know? Well, third time’s the charm, right? On […]

Science Proves Buddha Right!

Another nail has been driven into the coffin of faith-based thinking. Watch this short video, Low Expectations = Happiness, that outlines how we shoot ourselves in the foot through expectations born of wishful thinking. This is not to say expectations aren’t useful or natural. Indeed, considered from a symptoms point of view, I realize they […]

Cultivating Character

I’ve found that some people in Taoist circles have passionate ideals about cultivating one’s character. Seen from a symptoms point of view, I see passion overall as arising from the mother of need — fear. In this case, they fear lack of control over life, which drives their desire to control life… to cultivate character. […]

Cultivating Ego

Science News’s, Rats Feel Regret, Experiment Finds, reported that when a rat realizes it made a mistake, its body and brain show signs of regret (1). This finding is yet another nail in the coffin of human ‘exceptionalism’. Sure, we are different from rats, but so are butterflies and cats. Research like this truly challenges […]

Of Mountains, Molehills and the Supernatural

I’ve noticed how our species appears to have a universal sense of the supernatural. Now, I know science types and atheists will probably dispute that, at least as far as ‘universal’ applies to them. They’ll claim that they don’t believe in the supernatural. Fair enough, so let me rephrase this…

Remember the Disease

If you visit Centertao.org often, you’ll soon notice I sound like a broken record at times. Sometimes I even feel a bit guilty that I repeatedly make the same essential points. Then I remember the necessity of constant watchful review. This is akin to attempting to maintain balance under wobbly physical circumstances. Surely, psycho-emotional circumstances […]

You are Immortal!

Yes you are… I am… we are! That bold claim needs proof, which I can give you, and you will probably accept if you buy Buddha’s view of what ‘you, I and we‘ truly are. In other words, if you don’t accept Buddha’s Four Noble Truths as being true, at least in principle, this post […]

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