By Barbara Chai New York’s ABC Home and Blue Cliff Monastery will host the U.S. premiere of Thich Nhat Hanh’s calligraphy exhibit this fall, displaying 88 original works of calligraphy by the Buddhist monk and spiritual leader. Thich Nhat Hanh, who is also known as Thay, has incorporated calligraphy in his meditative practice for more than two decades. He drinks […]
Release by the Estate of Nina Simone: “Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)” by Nina Simone Recording session: Live in Stockholm, 1968
Em 1969, o editor John Martin ofereceu a Charles Bukowski US$100 a cada mês e todo mês de sua vida com uma condição: que ele saísse de seu emprego numa agência do correio se tornasse um escritor. Bukowski, com 49 anos de idade, o fez e em 1971 Martin publicou seu primeiro livro, Post Office […]
99% do que consumimos vai pro lixo em menos de 1 ano. É a transformação do Planeta Terra, de paraíso em lixo em 200 anos, por nós mesmos. Bom trabalho. Eu assisti a História das coisas de Annie Leonard que definitivamente vê as coisas com muito mais clareza do que todos os professores e acadêmicos […]
“Those of us who call for the repudiation of massive violence to solve human problems must sound utopian, romantic. So did those who demanded the end of slavery. But utopian ideas do become realistic at certain points in history, when the moral power of an idea mobilizes large numbers of people in its support. This […]
What is Skepticism? It’s nothing very esoteric. We encounter it every day. When we buy a used car, if we are the least bit wise we will exert some residual skeptical powers — whatever our education has left to us. You could say, “Here’s an honest-looking fellow. I’ll just take whatever he offers me.” Or you might […]