Month: May 2009
“What is Enlightenment?”
Kant’s famous little essay, “An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?” offered a simple method for addressing every realm of human ac...
“Walking alone”
The late Japanese Zen master Dainin Katagiri wrote a small essay entitled “Walking Alone, As All Beings,” commenting on the paradox in Buddhism of l...
Kierkegaard on the lie
Writing in the 1840’s, Kierkegaard had already defined the psychology of the personality long before the the 20th century. In Sickness unto Death, Kierkeg...
Solitude and madness
A friend of Hermitary points out an interesting article on solitary confinement titled “Hellhole” by Atul Gawande in the March 30 issue of The New Y...