Just Three Things“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” (Lao Tzu) Well, that sounds simple. But do I have the patience to let it sink in? And do I have the compassion to respond from a point of view other than my...

Just Three Things“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.” (Lao Tzu) Well, that sounds simple. But do I have the patience to let it sink in? And do I have the compassion to respond from a point of view other than my...

Hidden But Always PresentRemember autostereograms? They were big in the 1990s. Computer-generated images looking like a kaleidoscope of colored bits shaken into rows and columns. Look at them and you see just the 2D bits. But rela...

Phantoms?“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self." (Lao Tzu) How often we imagine futures in which we are better off in one way or another. Such futures are surely to be hoped for. But wait, what if the fu...

What Is Reality?Big question, isn’t it? I like Philip K. Dick’s answer. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Dick was a novelist and science fiction writer but I don’t think there’s much fiction in h...