My previous essay Creating the Culture of Fear drew a lot of favourable comment. But on rereading it I felt there was much more I could have said. I will try to fill in some of the gaps in this current essay. It is useful, to begin with, to look back at our history over […]

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie   So we now have something else to fear. The coronavirus has caused the death of over a thousand people in China. That of course is not […]

Form is the wave and emptiness is the water. So, “form is emptiness, emptiness is form” is like “wave is water, water is wave” . . . A wave on the ocean has a beginning and an end, a birth and a death. But Avalokitesvara tells us that the wave is empty. The wave is […]