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“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they …stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in…

On Friday I was lucky enough to attend a dharma talk with beloved Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh organized by Omega Institute. With each of the Beacon Theatre’s 2,800-plus seats full, the evening began with brown-robed monks–men on the right, women on the left–singing beautifully. When Thich Nhat Hanh approached the stage, he seemed small but sure…

The world is still buzzing with this morning’s news that Barack Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize. The first reactions, including the President’s, were of surprise. Then, of course, opinions: “he deserves it,” “he doesn’t deserve it,” “this cheapens the prize,” “this is an enlightened decision,” “this is the tolling of the apocalypse,” and so on. In the midst…

Today NASA deliberately crashed a rocket into the moon to search for water. My moon. Your moon. The poets’ moon. The ancients’ moon. Usually we howl at the moon. Today I feel like howling with the moon, for the moon. I don’t know if she’s hurt, obviously, but this feels like an intensely disrepectful (to say…
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