Tag: Meditation

• October 16, 2011

  On birthdays as last days

  Here’s my short essay on public philosophy, education, and our spiritual predicament at Butterflies and Wheels. — I’m spending my birthday tomorrow fasting and meditating. The following is an excerpt from Pierre Hadot, The Present Alone is Our Happiness; Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Marc Djaballah, Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2009, 162-6. — Jeannie…
• September 23, 2011

  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!…