A colleague of mine, a biologist, (let’s call him Ken) teaches an upper-level college course on genetics. Course requirements include the usual—class participation, quizzes, exams, and …a scientific paper. Each semester, when Ken mentions the paper the classroom erupts in shrieks and murmurs. Immediately after the noise dies down, hands shoot into the air and Read More
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? – The Tao te Ching Can you? Can you deny your own mind, your own consciousness, in order to have infinite understanding? Here, the Tao, the way, is referring to the realm of the soul where, through meditation and aesthetic practice, one Read More