In the moment?

“Live in the moment” and “seize the day” are popular sayings that can easily be equated with hedonism and the left-hand tantric doctrine...

Magic fruit

In a poem by the Chinese mountain hermit Ch’ing-hung, he recalls the day a gibbon came and took pears from his tree. The passage reminds translator Bill P...

Justice V

What is the source of justice, or of any virtue? Is it the state, as Plato thought in his utopian period, or is it the rational faculty of human beings, as Socr...

Good days, bad days

How often we speak of good days and bad days. On good days, people feel the sense of accomplishing something of value, of learning or enjoyment or encouragement...