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The self-help industry is huge. In no time at all you can find anything from gurus, therapists, meditation teachers, spiritual thought leaders, charismatic pastors, retreats, books, online courses, cushions, mats, daily affirmations, and so on.
But if, like me, you live in a capitalist
Imagine if you will 1990’s California, but something’s a little bit off. Cities are being slowly abandoned, massive robotic ruins dot the landscape, techno-cults abound, and everywhere you see people with oversized headsets plugged into terminals just standing there until they just wither away….
This is the dystopian
Recently the family and I went on a small trip to Cannon Beach in Oregon for my son’s Spring Break. In the past my two kids had differing weeks for Spring Break (different school districts), so we couldn’t really enjoy Spring Break much. Finally, this year with my daughter in college, we took a long drive to Oregon and beheld the amazing sight of
The Senchaku Hongan Nembutsushū (選択本願念仏集), or Senchaku-shu for short, is the magnum opus of Honen (法然, 1133 – 1212), who founded the Pure Land “Jodo Shu” sect in Japanese Buddhism. In fact, apart from the
I am now seven weeks into studying Taiwanese, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien, and it has been a fascinating experience. Despite studying Mandarin Chinese before, learning Hokkien has been a window into another aspect of Chinese culture that I was totally unaware of.
As I