the first in a series
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*
thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below
2024-01-06 / notes
*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links
2024-01-06 is 2024-W01-6* / a Saturday – see also under the symbol “▼” below
Roger Waters – formerly of Pink Floyd (!?) – a controversial human rights activist:Vijay Prashad – US-based historian and journalist (!?) – interviews Waters in this video
January 1 column in Le Figaro* on Israel/Gaza, archived and translated
Blenheim Palace and the Churchills*
Jerry Coyne – 2024-01-02 post on ideological capture of Unitarian Universalism (!?)
Jerry Coyne – 2023-01-06 post on descent of Unitarian Universalists*
Stephen Batchelor, PDF of 2012 article on Buddhism 2.0 (!?)
anicca, dukkha, anatta – the three marks of existence (!? !*)
Nagarjuna on the two truths: absolute and relative (!? !*)
▼ below are notes that apply to all posts in this series
featured image – copied from here – seems to be in general use for Meister Eckhart* (!i)
an interest … inter esse … inter-isness … interbeing / Thich Nhat Hanh (!?)
shared interest / empathic joy: as in love, compassion, joy, and equanimity (!? !*)
thanks again for sharing an interest in any of the items noted, most of them stories: stories tell us all we know and tell; “all we know is stories – some are helpful, some not” (!g) / check out a helpful one* … as for truth, a story tells at best a relative truth (*!)
here’s one: greed, hatred, and delusion (!?) come from ignorance of what we are not (*!)
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