Captian's Log Essay: Satori 14 Sep 202512 Sep 2025 Please Read:Satori https://tale-told.com/recollection/satori/
Captian's Log A Koan of my Own 29 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 Unfortunately, the mirror is blocking your face, and if you could stop looking at yourself, you might find that elusive stranger walking about out in the world. You hold up…
Captian's Log הבל הבלים 28 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 If everything is pointless and meaningless, why bother saying so? You feel pain? Well, isn't that a sort of meaning? You can't say "everything is meaningless" because meaningless is meaningless…
Captian's Log Religious Debate 4 Nov 2024 I dreamed recently, and in the dream, I was going, somewhat surreptitiously, to an underground fellowship of Christians. Well, metaphorically, it was underground; I was in some sort of skyscraper,…
Captian's Log Meditation on Passivity 30 May 202428 May 2024 I was thinking about passivity the other day in my prayers, and it seemed to me that there were two ways in which one might be passive. There is a…
Captian's Log Re: The Four Noble Truths 17 Oct 201917 Oct 2019 Explanation: The first Noble Truth expresses Dukkha, the unfulfilling nature of existence. It is then postulated that Dukkha arises out of thirst: The desire for sensual pleasures, the desire for…
Captian's Log Christian Response to Buddhism 15 Oct 2019 Excerpts from a paper on Buddhism: Logical problems with Buddhism: One challenging aspect for this outsider to comprehend regarding Buddhist belief is the seemingly contrary principles of compassion and stoicism.…
Captian's Log Essay: A Closer Look 3 Sep 2019 Please Read: A Closer Look Original Post Considering my short interaction with the Buddhists, I've thought about what other questions I should have asked. I might have gotten a clearer…
Captian's Log Rough Draft: A Closer Look 1 Sep 2019 The building is a bright, inviting yellow, an eye-catching house which has time and again pulled my attention from the road to its sign: Light Temple. I’ve cracked jokes with…
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