If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him
Zen might help with your existential struggle.
Category: Philosophy
The Revolt Against Essence
Getting to know the most popular philosophy of the 20th century. There's a reason Zen, Kerouac, Salinger, and Forrest Gump were, and continue to be, so popular.
Is That Guy Stupid, a Jerk, or Both?
Noisiness tends to stem from an ability to look outside oneself, which is something both the unintelligent and the boors lack
Libertarian and Conservative to Cuff One Another on Live Video
Upoming debate between conservative and libertarian
Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?
Wage work, in other words, is replaced with play work. It’s like changing from a smelly shirt into the sweat-soaked shirt you jogged in a few hours earlier.
Why Weak Fools Can Dominate
The medieval fool was a powerful character. In the nineteenth century, another powerful fool, Nietzsche, emerged. They were both powerful because they both sacrificed all.
Three Lesser-Known Figures in the Zen Tradition
Getting to know Chuang-Tzu, Lin-Chi, and Dogen's kitchen-worker friend. . . with Catholic asides.
How to Live Like a Zen Master
Zen, Christ, St. Therese Lisieux, C.S. Lewis: they all taught a similar thing. Cultivate the eyes of a child.
Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy
The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now
Pulling Thomas Aquinas Kicking and Screaming into the Twentieth Century
You can’t get through a Pieper book quickly any more than you can fly through poetry, or run through an art museum, or gulp fine wine. All such things …
The Reality of Fr. Damien
God is good, so to the extent something is good, it has more existence . . . it’s more “real.”
Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World
Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.