Tag: Zen

• Remembering Thich That Hanh

  Today I would like to pay respects to Thay. His books had a big impact on me when my mom started having them around the house in the mid 80’s, which was how I started to get interested in Buddhism. Thay gave me the Dharma name Great Patience of the Heart during a 3 week…

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  January 22, 2022

  Buddhism

  Buddhism, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Diamond Sutra, Gender, Heart Sutra, Insight Meditation Center, Karl Marx, Larry Rosenberg, mental health, Patriarchy, Plum Village, Robert McNamara, Sutra On the Full Awareness of Breathing, Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vipassana, Zen

• Top 40 Over 40.12: Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet

        I’ve listened to lots of records I’ve liked over the last 10 years, but the recording the Kronos Quartet made of this piece is probably my favorite.  It seems remarkable that such a strange thing of beauty could be recorded at Skywalker Sound, George Lucas’s compound in Northern California.  Morton Feldman spent the…

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  May 5, 2013

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Gamelan, John Cage, Modern classical music, Morton Feldman, Orientalism, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Zen