Month: May 2022
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Ethical Practice As Purification
The Eightfold Path picks out Right Thought, Right Speech, and Right Action as the foci for ethical practice. This is wise. I’d like to begin with where we are, however. We engage in wrong, unwholesome, negative thought patterns; and we react, in wrong speech and in wrong action, out of these unwholesome thought patterns. In…
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Huston Smith On The Buddha’s First Noble Truth
I find myself returning often to the Buddha’s First Noble Truth. I do so because it is a noble attempt to articulate the human predicament in so few words. Huston Smith on Dukkha The simplest, though not terribly helpful, formulation is: “Life is dukkha.” According to Huston Smith in The World’s Religions, Dukkha… names the…
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Namu And Sahaja In Santa Fe
The following is a sketch written while my wife Alexandra and I were in Santa Fe, New Mexico, last week to celebrate her birthday. * It’s morning for us as we stride along a country road. We are four: you and I, of course, but also Namu and Sahaja. Our first dog has been renamed–and…
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Love In Santa Fe
The following are literary sketches written almost exactly 10 years after my wife Alexandra and I met. Then we were in Woodstock for a week and now we are in Santa Fe. Then it was her 30th birthday; now her 40th. The Wicca Hour: A Literary Sketch (May 2, 2012) It is entirely possible that we…
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Our Daoist At-one-ment
The following are literary sketches written almost exactly 10 years after my wife Alexandra and I met. Then we were in Woodstock for a week and now we are in Santa Fe. Then it was her 30th birthday; now her 40th. I. Ethical Life, Restored: A Literary Sketch From Woodstock (May 15, 2012) Silent of…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 