Tag: philosophy
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Peace in a Fluid World: Zen, Jung & Embracing Change
You’re here for a reason.Maybe something’s shifting, out there or in you.So it isn’t a quest for escape or distraction, but for something deeper.Peace perhaps, not as perfection but as posture.Something we develop from the inside out.Let’s explore three perspectives, not for certainties but for insight. We’ll start with the simplest question:What’s happening right now?No,…
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Essence as Unfolding Mystery
What is essence?Is it what was never there,or what always remains? Philosophers, mystics, seekers…we’ve all turned this word over in our hands,trying to feel its shape.And every tradition casts it in a different light. The English word essence comes from the Latin essentia, meaning “being” or “nature.”It was coined to translate the Greek ousia—the “substance” or “whatness” of a…
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The Field Between: Tension’s Gift
Notice the breath. In and out. Already, our mind begins to organize things into patterns, pairs. A pair that is in fact along one continuous spectrum or pole. We don’t have one without the other. For centuries, people have told stories in twos: light and dark, masculine and feminine, hero and villain. These aren’t just…
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Consciousness, Language, and the Limits of Observation
Trying to understand consciousness has something in common with trying to understand the tiniest parts of the physical world. Both raise the same strange issue: the closer we look, the less certain we become. Physics names this limit Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: when you measure one aspect of a particle, like its position, you blur another,…
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