Recovering nature

For convenience, it is easy to distinguish nature met intentionally (as in camping, hiking, retreats) and the serendipitous and less intimidating sense of natur...

Indeterminate

A friend of Hermitary notes with regard to consciousness the primordial sense of the indeterminate, prior to even the basic yin-yang, as found in Confucius. Thi...

Perspective

Many popular images are intended to demonstrate that how we view things is a matter of perspective. For example, the image of a glass of water: the optimist say...

Looking for consciousness

Consciousness plunges into a full discussion of so many other universal questions. Even apparently opposing points of view about consciousness seem to approach ...

Wandering

A traveler is not a wanderer and the wanderer is not a hermit, but there are affinities among them. The Japanese Zen poet and hermit Basho traveled throughout J...

Faith II

Soren Kierkegaard’s concept of truth illustrates the “efficacy” of faith and the distinction between the expression of faith, which is univers...