Oct 8, 2014 | Eastern Philosophy
The following story, or fairy tale, comes to us from the great British novelist, John Fowles. I’ve adapted the story with some amount of poetic license, from one of my favorite novels, The Magus. “The Magician and the Prince”, like most fairy tales,...
Jul 31, 2010 | Bambu Batu, Eastern Philosophy
As we prepare for the major undertaking of relocating the House of Bamboo, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on the fact — sometimes hard to swallow — that everything is always in a state of flux. Or as the ancient Greeks were wont to say, “Panta...
Jul 15, 2010 | Bambu Batu, Eastern Philosophy
As we’ve just gotten in a beautiful new batch of mythic eastern statuary, this seems like an apt moment to review the line-up of Far Eastern iconography. The mighty Buddha is known to take many shapes and forms, sometimes even the absence of form. For those not...
