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August 1, 2017 edition

We are not all like Odysseus who had to cross a perilous strait.
As the famous story tells of the King of Ithaca who sailed home after the Trojan Wars, Odysseus could not refuse.

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July 25, 2017 edition

Mountains. Rice fields. Roads. Lines of trees stretching into the distance...
We have known this landscape for years: the work of obedient schoolchildren following their teachers' instructions, or artists who sell their wares on the roadside. Easily understood. Easily made. Just following an old formula.

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July 18, 2017 edition

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July 11, 2017 edition

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July 4, 2017 edition

'and what is the sin of the body?'
-- extract from poem in the performance Panji Sepuh
The Buddha sits in meditation--or he is a skeletal frame sitting cross-legged: a pair of eyes like two holes in his skull, a body of virtually just 24 ribs.

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June 27, 2017 edition

People are never as enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."
Simonini says this with certainty, but we do not have to believe it. He is just a fictitious character in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery, someone who lives from lies and falsehood.

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June 20, 2017 edition

Fire. Oil. Straw. These three inexpensive things were what 'Ayn al-Qudt wanted for his death sentence to be carried outperhaps as a kind of simple delivery to the world of martyrs. It seems he did not want to leave the world with any fanfare of glory. The death of a Sufi, even when murdered, was a simple dispersal to the bosom of God.

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