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Posted on September 27, 2019 by Bob Quinn

Defending What Is Sacred

“Our problems are so complex that only a truly simple solution will do.”
Jiddhu Krishnamurti

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
R. Buckminster Fuller

The radical theologian-ecologist Matthew Fox tells of having a dream long ago in which a voice tells him that the only problem humans have is that they have lost a sense of the sacred. This is surprising. I would have thought we had a lot of big problems, not just one. When I contemplated the message of his dream, it demanded a reorganization of my typical thought process. Could this be true? Only one problem?

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Bob Quinn

Easter Reflections

On this eve of Easter, 2017, I find myself reflecting on a great teacher who walked among his fellow humans some 2000 years ago and brought a message of love. I refer of course to Jesus of Nazareth. The Jesus depicted in the Gospel of Thomas is the one dearest to my heart—much like a great Zen teacher in many respects.

Sometimes I wonder what he would make of the world we have built with its institutional greed, insensitivity, racism, sexism, hatred, militarism, ecological destruction, and on and on the depressing list might run. Have we progressed at all since his day? Likely yes, but hardly enough to be proud of. Deep problems abound.