Author: Andrew Taggart
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Four Basic Negative Emotions Arising From Ego-selves
Once you look into the research further, you realize that there are as many classification of basic emotions as you can shake a stick at. Still, I don’t know how many are beginning from the actual experience of meditation. The latter will be my starting point. While I don’t want to say anything conclusive here…
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Fledglings And Us
When I looked at them, they struck me as spellbound. For long hours, they would sit beside the pine tree in the corner of the yard, wearing the guise of the uninitiated. Big eyes. Tender feet. Trepidation when flying was proposed. You mean now? The fledglings were brother and sister, or brother and brother, or…
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The Zen Koan’s Life Challenge
There is an unbridgeable gulf between the therapeutic dispensation and Rinzai Zen. While the former seeks to “cool your jets” and help you “cope” with secular life’s vicissitudes, the latter wants to show you how to turn up the temperature on your own dis-ease with a view to your fundamental, direct realization of your being.…
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Stop Confessing Your Vulnerabilities
Over the years, and most especially during the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve noticed an unsettling trend: people I barely know or do not know at all will send me letters written in the mode of a confession. Completely out of the blue. The writer will not ask after me or mine, nor will he or she…
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Monsoon Season In The American Southwest
I wonder what strange beast, growing and purpling, will grope beyond the mountains, tumble down, and spill forth its contents? Or will it? Peoples living well before us must have tasted the air and looked up at the darkening sky and hoped or prayed or sang or danced. Or all. Will it come this time?,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 