Category: meditation
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Hustle hustle hustle (Part 3): Terre Haute is bust
Terre Haute is Bust (December 30, 2006) Relationships, like tires, wear down, little by little, before they wear out. (Oh, but how we tire of tires. They too get old.) For hundreds, no thousands of miles, no for months on end, there had been a whirring coming from somewhere around the left front wheel. That…
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The ‘great speedup’ reconsidered: Being at wits’ end and beyond
Abstract The following paper clocks in at around 2500 words. If you’d like to read it in its entirety, it might be easiest to click on the title of the post above. Here’s an abstract: Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffer, in the July/August issue of Mother Jones, write about the grave social impact of what they term “the great speedup”–essentially,…
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Of craving and its supersession
I You are caring for your children while thinking of the work you’ve yet to finish. You are in the middle of a conversation and longing for release. You meet another and already you are making plans for the next. Your book is in hand, you thumb its pages, your ambition for all the rest…
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An invitation to the reader to join me in a philosophical conversation
A Cordial Invitation I’d like to invite you to have a philosophical conversation with me. If you’re living outside of New York City, then the conversation would take place over Skype. If you’re in the City, then we’d take a stroll through Central Park. The economy we’d be engaged in would be a gift economy.…
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Friday meditation: Rumi’s ‘What’s Not Here’
What’s Not Here Rumi (1207-73) I started out on this road, call it love or emptiness. I only know what’s not here: resentment seeds, back- scratching greed, worrying about out- outcome, fear of people. When a bird gets free, it doesn’t go back for remnant left on the bottom of the cage!…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 