Photo by Alessandra Caretto on Unsplash Summary: As I said in my previous essay, we understand the heavens quite well; it's the earth that confounds our imaginations. What is it to be terrestrial? What does it mean to be enmeshed in a world? These are questions we understand poorly. Samsara invites us into the conditioned world; while the term has pre-scientific origins, can it be reshaped to accommodate what we now know about the objective universe?
2019 Newsletter 2: Bija Mantra
2019 Newsletter 2: Bija Mantra
2019 Newsletter 2: Bija Mantra
Photo by Alessandra Caretto on Unsplash Summary: As I said in my previous essay, we understand the heavens quite well; it's the earth that confounds our imaginations. What is it to be terrestrial? What does it mean to be enmeshed in a world? These are questions we understand poorly. Samsara invites us into the conditioned world; while the term has pre-scientific origins, can it be reshaped to accommodate what we now know about the objective universe?