Author: Andrew Taggart
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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…
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The Buddha’s Second Noble Truth: Is It Graspable In Terms Of Non-acceptance?
Can we get a better conceptual grip on Buddha’s Second Noble Truth? I. Dukkha Huston Smith, in The World’s Religions, provides us with an elegant articulation of the First Noble Truth. Loosely, it is that “life is suffering.” But this is too loose by far. Instead, we might say, thanks to Smith, that “Life (in…
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Have You Ever Seen Your Own Brain?
On Experiencing No Brain “Have you ever seen your own brain?” This could have been a question that Bernardo Kastrup could have posed in his book consisting of popular essays: Science Ideated: The Fall Of Matter And The Contours Of The Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview (2021). Obviously, you haven’t experienced your own brain–because you can’t. On…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 