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Monkey mind
There’s something about the way the light hits the buildings as the sun rises in the morning. When in daytime the light surrounds them as they stand proudly, as if immortal, at dawn they capture the light against the dark skyline as it fades away into obscurity. That is, it’s discordant with the nature of…
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a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
Recently I found myself in a bit of a hurry. I was headed to my mum’s, and had forgotten the clothes I’d packed so, instead of the subway, I called an Uber since I was running late. Being driven to Union station felt like a treat I seldom experienced. Relatively speaking, I rarely even need…
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a love note
Just a bit of housekeeping: My subscribers may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed. What was once El Philósopho is now (For the) Love of Wisdom, and the URL has been altered accordingly. Why did I do this? Well, the idea came to me one night when I was unable to…
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the dao is like water
Never mind your Hogwarts house! What type of bender would you be? In case you haven’t seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, let me explain. In Avatar, there are four nations based on the four elements: air, water, earth, and fire. Some members of each nation can control, or “bend”, their respective element, while the Avatar…
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Loss & Life
We’re all different people, all through our lives. And that’s okay, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember the people you used to be. —The Eleventh Doctor I was having a conversation with this professor I know about healing “ministries”, or care professions in general. When we spoke about the kinds…
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The Legacy of No-Legacy
I was scrolling through my Instagram reels the other day when I stumbled upon one that put me in a rather existential mood. It spoke about how, 100 years from now, we’ll be practically unknown, and everything we own will be passed along to someone else or, more than likely nowadays, rotting in a dump…
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The Failure of Conservatism
I don’t talk about politics often on here. The way I see it, those subjects are best left to Facebook arguments with relatives, awkward family dinners, and first dates. (I’m only joking!) Having said that, I’m going to get a bit political today since this has been on my mind. You see, I used to…
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Faith, Religion, and Reason
We’ve all heard the tired line about how faith and reason are opposed to one another, right? You may have heard things like, “Religion is irrational,” have you not? And you may scarcely have wondered about people who say they have faith but do not claim to be religious; or those who are religious but,…
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
One time, when I was on a zen retreat, we sat around in a circle and took turns screaming imperatives as loud as we possibly could. They were very dramatic, too. We’d scream things like “Don’t waste your life!” and “Wake up!” or some such thing. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! It looked really easy, and…
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