Driving back from Vermont today I was considering how strange it is that automotive technology is so primitive.  If all the other familiar technologies in our lives had stopped at the maturity level of gas powered cars, we would be travelling home for the holidays in a stagecoach, listening to the IDP live by candlelight,…

I’m on my way out to celebrate my birthday, but I didn’t want my turn to pass without acknowledging the Buddhist refuge vow ceremony many of us at the ID Project took park in yesterday. I wanted to thank Acharya Spiegel for explaining to us what it means to take refuge and giving us the vows. His…

Providence can be defined as understanding, intent, and action. Maybe omniscience and foresight. I’m no Calvinist so I can’t really say for sure, but Divine Providence, apparently, can also smile and dance. I found this out this morning at five a.m., when the following text message appeared in my phone: “This is a stranger. And…

I had a funny experience today. Unable to write my post on Wednesday due to a busy day of theater-related stuff, I decided that, after going to bed at 2am I would wake at 6:30 this morning and spend an hour or so writing and musing about Right Speech and Right Livelihood, the subjects of…

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