Tao te ching: 1

From the opening lines of section (or chapter) 1, the Tao te ching of Lao-tzu plunges into the depths of reality and the paradox of being. In turn, the nature o...

Basho and Tennyson

D.T. Suzuki’s little 1957 essay “East and West” is one of the more succinct statements contrasting ways of thought and observing. To illustrat...

Paradox

The solitary should be conscious of paradox at all times, in contrast to the many (ideologues, apologists, advocates, activists, the indifference, the powerful)...