Follow the Law or embrace Justice and Mercy. Continue reading
Gone, Baby, Gone: Man’s Justice
Everyone Else Knows Better
The Enlightenment liberal believes that if the disputing parties engage in a rational discussion of ideas, then they will come to a satisfactory conclusion. However, everyone else knows better. Continue reading
The Experience of Existence
Signs of deliverance: imperturbability, detachment, impassibility, the Eternal Now, the Presence of God. Continue reading
The Unity of Existence
He regains his normal, daily consciousness and accordingly the normal, daily, phenomenal world of multiplicity again begins to spread itself out before his eyes. The world of multiplicity appears again with all its infinitely rich colors. Continue reading
The Reality of Existence
At the intuitive stage, existence is not known as an object from the outside, but rather by the knower being inseparably existence itself. Continue reading
The Concept of Existence
In the eyes of an ordinary man the phenomena are the visible and manifest while the Absolute is the hidden. A real mystic-philosopher knows that the Absolute is manifest while the phenomena remain in the background. Continue reading
The Moon was a ghostly Galleon
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there, but the landlord’s black-eyed daughter. Continue reading
Charade or the Primordial State
Sometimes you have to break free of the system to finally see the truth. Love cannot be explained by the logic of the world. Continue reading
How to Break an Egg
One of the central teachings of Confucianism is that one should remonstrate with authority. Many Confucians throughout history disputed their superiors in order to not only prevent the superiors and the rulers from wrongdoing, but also to maintain the independent spirits of the Confucians. Continue reading
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
For a young woman, while there is a lack of love, her fantasies keep her soul alive. Elaine did experience real love, which could never be matched by a fantasy because it was unrequited. Hence, her soul slowly died. Continue reading