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Evil is treating people like things, Granny Weatherfax, #discworld Carpe Jugulum

For those of you who haven’t been reading my tweets: Three weeks ago now I developed a serious case of sciatica that kept me (mostly) in bed because of the pain for a day or two. Luckily, it seems the cause is NOT a herniated disc and I now consider myself fully recovered. I will [...]

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Free will and karma

Free will is an important issue in Western Philosophy – usually contrasted with predestination. This gets us, unfortunately, in a very all or nothing kind of discussion if we don’t watch out.Predestination, karma and fate are all sometimes used as ways of saying that what is, was meant to be. However, unfortunately, this is often [...]

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Is there something wrong with boredom, during meditation?

Merely putting the question answers it, I think: No, there is nothing wrong with boredom during meditation, at least, that’s how I feel. My recent blogposts about meditation have evoked many responses about my attitude towards that boredom I wrote about. And then, especially on my Dutch blog, my analysis of the responses was apparently [...]

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The unsaid basics of meditation and life

What we all do when we start something, when we do something, when we try something, when we read something, when we respond to something… is bring ourselves into it. I was a bit baffled by some of the responses to my post about the unsaid things about meditation. And what it was is this: [...]

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What they don’t tell you about meditation

The below was written over the past month, as I did a (mostly) daily regimen of 15 minutes of meditation based on the various books about Buddhist meditation I’ve been reading. 1) at first it’s like a sitting still exercise: avoiding the irrepressible urge to jump up and DO whatever it is you just thought [...]

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Merry Christmas Everybody!

I don’t know how your Christmas is, but ours in The Netherlands is white. I’ve skated on a local lake, one of the few where the ice is not too spoiled from snow, this morning. An uncle, my parents and my brothers will gather today in my parents house. My mom is happy to be [...]

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Blavatsky’s Psychology

The title of this piece is rather ambitious. I’m not going to go in depth into this topic right now: I’m sure there is enough material on the topic to write a book about, which I might just end up writing. Just not today. Usually when theosophists talk about Madame Blavatsky’s psychology, which implicitly they [...]

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Change isn’t easy – Discover your dharma?

It’s not often that I write about books I don’t like. In fact I was going to ignore ‘Discover Your Dharma‘, but my mom persuaded me review it. She said, it makes a good story: a book that has won awards that you don’t like. Actually hate is a better word for my sentiments. I [...]

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