(or) On the Nature of Liu Ling's Trousers https://youtube.com/shorts/Sx9hR86Xu_U?si=8W9LOgLgbo4h5CpR The Taoist Liu Ling liked to go about his house naked. One day, he was interrupted by some stuffy Confucian visitors. When they expressed surprise (and likely, no little dismay) at the absence of trousers, Liu replied: “The whole universe is my house and this room …
Author: dsleon
Writer. Former Google employee; now the Librarian at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.
God is Dead!…or is He? (Oven of Akhnai pt2)
[Click here for PART ONE] https://youtu.be/hDiiWy-vAV4 Once upon a time, some rabbis, a tree, God, and an oven walk into a bar. Or something like that. I can’t remember exactly. I told that story last time. Click here to check that out first. But long story short, a bunch of rabbis argue about an oven. …
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Rabbis vs. God?! – The Oven of Akhnai
https://youtu.be/GV_B19Xs97c Script of the Talk: Once upon a time in the Holy Land, during the era of the Rabbinic Sages, there was a certain oven. A dispute arose around this oven. Was it, or was it not, ritually pure? The Rabbis gathered, encircling it with their arguments like a snake coiled around a sun-warmed stone. …
Poetic Triumvirate
[900 words] Over the last few weeks in Madrid, I've fallen into a heartwarming and tri-generational triumvirate. The group consists of three poets: Mickey McC A 22-year-old Humanities undergraduate who upped sticks from rural Pennsylvania to do a degree in a country he'd never been to, and in a language he'd only just started learning …
King of the gods VS an army of Titans!
https://youtu.be/DVS-iKAaYcU The King of the Gods takes on an army of Titans! Does he survive? Can you predict the shocking twist? =O Kulavaka Sutta Saṁyutta Nikāya 11.6 https://suttacentral.net/sn11.6/en/su... Expanded version at the end of the Kulavaka Jātaka: https://suttacentral.net/ja31/en/chal... // Facebook! -- https://www.facebook.com/davidsolomon... Twitter! -- https://twitter.com/d_s_leon PATREON -- https://patreon.com/davidsolomonleon
The Story of Wang Hui-Chih – Taoist Sage!
For those of you who don't know... I have a YouTube channel!!! Here's the latest video!!! https://youtu.be/5GoolMx2l_s And here are the passages I quoted in it: ¶47 While Wang Hui-chih was living in Shan-yin (Chekiang), one night there was a heavy fall of snow. Waking from sleep, he opened the panels of his room, and, …
The Cosmos Within – 2021 in Review
A life update of the second half of 2021.
Welcome!
Welcome to my website! Here are some quick links to get started.
- Full Table of Contents.
- Check my About page for a short bio; or, for a far better picture, my Testimonials.
- Excerpts from my reading.
- My YouTube channel!!!
- A podcast I co-host.
Short pieces to get a taste of the style and themes I've been writing about recently:
- A brief explanation of God
- Human Interaction: Blossoms and Thorns
- Conversation with my Inner Child
- An Honest Guide out of Depression
Introductions to book-length sequences of blog posts:
- Autobiographical sequence - Confessions of a Modern Mystic:
- Summation of Spinoza's philosophy
The Great Paralysis
[3000 words] Autobiographical sequence [1 – Earliest Memories][2 – The Birth of Venus][3 – Playground Dynamics][4 – The Long, Long Walk Back Home][5 – The Great Paralysis][6 – My Teacher] By 1964, a couple of years longer than it should have taken, [the famed mathematician John] Conway finished his PhD thesis, which explored a modest byway of set theory. …
The long, long walk back home
[1700 words] Autobiographical sequence [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - The Birth of Venus][3 - Playground Dynamics][4 - The Long, Long Walk Back Home][5 - The Great Paralysis][6 - My Teacher] If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you …
David Leon 