The Self-Referentiality of Buddhism
A puzzling problem… Having a day largely to myself I decide to walk downtown with the object of taking in …
Tag Archives: Life
The Quest: Books, One; Hearts and Souls, Nothing
Nothing’s easy. Fun, yes, easy, no. Episode three of the Omphalos Cafe is now live on Youtube. Attempted to draw …
Culture is the Great Misleader…
More and more I take my camera wherever I go. Trying to capture moments of Life, I suppose. I’m gathering …
“Think Outside the Box?”… Thinking IS the Box!
“No other mechanism devised by the human mind succeeds so well in transmitting that mind’s quality to another sentient being.”—Mark …
Life… It’s Deceptively Simple
Tough slogging last few posts, that’s for sure. All that stuff about new religions and old, Christianity not our’s originally …
Everyday Zen
Every moment Zen. Of course that’s what the Cafe is about. There is a retreat, a withdrawal, in order to …
Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor
Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …
Je Suis… Omphalos
Forgiveness is the word for all. Here at the Cafe we don’t take sides. The world says a crime has …
A Fragment of Biology
“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …
Ambition?
Chatted with an old friend last night. He finished university, became an engineer, married, moved to Florida and raised two …
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