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“Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’” Matthew 22:13 In the second book of his informal “Appalachian trilogy” (also comprising The Orchard Keeper and Child of God), Cormac McCarthy grimly limns what…

“The wisdom, therefore, that reaches out beyond the sensible and reveals to him his own being and with it his final goal, may well be called divine wisdom or theosophy” (xxii). The opening of the “eye of the spirit”, the actualization of latent, in-dwelling supersensible faculties, begins with a feeling. He or she who is…

Among other things, Shakyamuni Buddha taught that the mindful heeding of experience discloses three essential marks: anicca (impermanence), dukkha (dis-ease), and anatta (no-self). Although I want to pay special attention to the place of impermanence within the Dharma, these three marks are inextricably woven, and so must be co-explicated to a degree. In concentrating on…