All Entries in the "Judaism" Category
Don’t Know Mind and Introspection - Susan Kaiser Greenland
Don’t know mind was a favorite phrase of Korean Zen master Seung Sahn and I bet it’s the perspective that the last question of this week’s presidential debate was intended to point the candidates toward. It refers to a state of mind that is open and receptive; one of non-reactive, non-conceptual awareness. It’s not empty, but a lens through which we experience life directly and clearheadedly.
Post-Zionism in a diaspora world. Tom Teicholz
In Israel itself, 60 years of existential peril have created a sense of living in the moment — currently there is a surprising sense of well-being among certain strata of the Israeli population that comes from focusing on family, on work and on materialistic concerns divorced from national and political concerns. When you live in the moment, you can live anywhere: