the blog of Alexander Spotnitz
Drawing rays of relation from natural facts about Giant Sequoia trees to myself, to society as a whole, and to Taoism. Being reminded that only from stillness and emptiness does the fullness of change emerge. Being is born of non-being.
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Clearing up “spirituality” and the terminology surrounding it, including meditation, mindfulness, mysticism, and enlightenment, mostly with help from Shinzen Young’s book The Science of Enlightenment.
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I’d like to share how I became my own healer and the almost fairy tale way of how the path of fitness brought me from the external to the internal.
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Thoughts on walking and disembodiment, electric self-balancing scooters, unicycles, and hoverboards. And a perfect example of absurd marketing.
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I have to share a recent account of disenchantment, a condition I feel largely borne of disembodiment, and disembodiment endemic of perhaps 99% of the world.
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