by zen | Nov 18, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] “….Instead of softening their feet with shoe or sandal, his rule was to make them hardy through going barefoot. This habit, if practiced, would, as he believed, enable them to scale heights more easily and...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 31, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the hopelessly interdisciplinary nature of reality ] . ** There really is no limit to the diversity of strands which go into a complex tapestry such as that of Gaza. Jean-Pierre Filiu has written, and Hurst will shortly publish, his...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where brute reality & instinct collide head-on with morality & military professionalism ] . ** I’ve been taking various MOOCs recently — online courses from places like the University of Leiden, the START program...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a follow up to my earlier post Of dualities, contradictions and the nonduality, with its Yogi Berra / Andrei Tarkovsky DoubleQuote ] . Abdul Sattar Edhi is the subject of a Telegraph piece I read today: ** Short form, excerpted from this...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mostly written as news came from the hospital that his condition had turned critical, updated and posted now that his death has been announced ] . Already I am feeling the presentiment of grief, and so much of what I feel stems from this...
