by Charles Cameron | Jul 25, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from the Buddha’s Diamond Sutra via matrioshka dolls and koans to Sun Tzu and Wittgenstein ] . From Karl Brunnhölz, The Heart Sutra Will Change You Forever, in today’s Lion’s Roar: Besides being a meditation manual, we...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — religions taking other religions apart, stone by stone, image by image, song by song ] . Some recently converted Jehovah’s Witnesses appear to have destroyed the altars of indigenous Otomi people in Mexico, an anthopologist has...
by zen | Jul 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm and Ezra Pound A meandering post inspired by Reason Magazine and Charles Cameron. Reason.com is best known for giving a scrappy libertarian take on current events, crime, technology and pop...
by zen | Feb 9, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John Dower Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 by William Shirer Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh ...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz — plus an afterimage of WWI ] . First, a master-class in the craft of the blues: Second, the moon: And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria … get me...
