Author: Andrew Taggart
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Peter Pans
Maybe you too have the eerie sense that a fair number of young men are not growing up fully. In this respect, they are Peter Pans. I find it hard to state this thesis clearly. Toward the beginning of my “Secular Monks” piece, I gesture in this direction: Recently, I began to notice that well-educated,…
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Reading The Tao Te Ching: Kenosis; or, Self-emptying
And what is always here? What, indeed, is evident just when the self falls away?
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Pandemic Boredom
Recently, I’ve heard from a number of people with whom I philosophize that they feel a real hunger for newness. Maybe it is that quaint village they remember and wish to return to or that mountain they want to hike up or the aqua sea they long to dip their toes into. That hunger for…
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The News IS Drama: A Danger
It’s not that news stirs up drama, though of course it does that. It’s that the news is drama. But drama is not meditation. And meditation is the nature of universal consciousness. For those working in the media, something happens and immediately it’s “taken up.” As my Zen teacher says concerning practice, “Don’t turn it…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 