In a moment of wonder the qualia that is revealed to us may be just what we are looking for. Even if it seems beyond us, or painful to accept, we can practice Tonglen in that moment, breathing in our ignorance and breathing out our wonder.

The qualiadelic patterns which hold all things (including ourselves) in some sort of alignment, can be described, but their purpose is to tell us how to act. Gravity and the laws of physics tell atoms and planets how to act; and our interpretation of what we sense tells us howContinue Reading

No one knows just why the 81 poems of the Tao Te Ching have been so arranged. The poems of the Tao Te Ching do seem to have a trajectory, but the arc of that trajectory is not reflected in the traditional order of the poems. Unfortunately, to separate oneselfContinue Reading