The influence of language alone can hardly explain the shift from a participatory to a non-participatory world. If human discourse is experienced by indigenous, oral peoples to be participant with the speech of birds, of wolves, and even of the wind, how could it ever have become severed from the vaster life? How could we […]
Monthly Archive: June 2021
“You may have heard me tell the strikers to stand down. I was interrupted but those words were what the rich and powerful wanted me to stay to you. But the truth is something else entirely. It may sound strange to hear a man of God say this but the truth is that America is […]
Teachings of Buddhism is that unhappiness is caused by desire and avoidance. Desire for things we like and avoidance of the things we don’t like. Suffering is a lack of acceptance of how things are, so we run away from things we don’t like, and we chase the things we like. This is the wheel […]