French Lessons, by Tracy Cochran
Vincent Van Gogh, The Red Vineyard at Arles, 1888, oil, on canvas (Puskin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)One morning last October, I experienced a moment of…
The Golden Rule and the Transformation of Being
The most ancient of principles that binds all religious and philosophical traditions together is what we have come to call “The Golden Rule.” Simple in its statement, its actual practice…
How Wisdom Became the Property of the Human Race, by Anonymous (West African)
Again and Again Anansi Tried To Climb the Tree There once lived, in Fanti-land, a man named Father Anansi. He possessed all the wisdom in the…
A Matter of Life and Death, by Rosalind Bradley
Painted thangka of Milarepa. Late nineteenth-early twentieth century, Bhutan Death Row Mitchell Willoughby (USA) When you realize emptiness, there is no fear. —Lama Zopa Rinpoche Having…
“Find Noor Sher. Noor Sher Knows.”
When I first met Abdul Wassi (A.W.) Noor Sher in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1973, he was the most successful rug dealer in all of Central Asia. In contrast, I was…
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