which currently operates as the Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre.
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Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
the 12th century when Ernald married into the family. The redundant church (above) dedicated to St Helen is late 12th-century in origin but rebuilt by J B and W Atkinson in 1865 to the original footprint. It is situated within the grounds of Kilnwick Percy Hall,
Kilnwick Percy, near Pocklington, was a 12th-century seat held by the powerful, Norman-descended Percy family in this case Ernald de Perci, which gave the estate its name. The manor was originally given by William the Conqueror to Robert de Bruis, but was inherited in
Two British modernists on the Buddhist concept of the emptiness of the self (Virginia Woolf & W.H. Auden)- interestingly, Woolf actually had Buddhist books in her personal library & Auden was deeply shaped by Schopenhauer (19th-century philosopher, one of the first to bring Buddhism to the West)
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/
Motherland Book Talk by the brilliant @juliaioffe.bsky.social at Columbia SIPA in conversation with Nina Khrushcheva
Founding editor of ДОЖДЬ @zygaro.bsky.social Columbia University: “the Ukrainian war is a war about the ‘I’ vs. the ‘we’ of Soviet culture, trying to draft the younger generation back to the Soviet traditionalist conception of Russian culture”
Attended New York Philharmonic concert this weekend. I went to see Bronfman play Schumann, as concert was advertised- did not notice Tchaikovsky imperialist 2nd Symphony on prog. I was horrified to see the program notes. How is this tone deaf imperialist Russian chauvinism possible in 2026?!?
"Mask of Sorrow" sculpted by Ernst Niezvestny, dedicated to the memory of prisoners of the Gulag Magadan, Russia
'Images cannot be ideas but they can play the part of signs, or, to be more precise, coexist with ideas in signs and, if ideas are not yet present, they can keep their future place open for them and make its contours apparent negatively' (John Berger on Ernst Niezvestny's work)
“We should be looking to the sadness… We should be looking to the people who produced something beautiful when they didn’t have to.”
Gluttons for Punishment
Justin McDaniel has developed a cult following for getting his students to read — as long as they follow his rules.
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⚡️ Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist.' Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist organization'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
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Where once we'd have to justify an unconventional production with a newspaper article, now it seems we must justify (even apologize for) a conventional/traditional one... Via @nytimes.com
At the Met, Toasting With Traditional Puritans on New Year’s Eve
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“Heidegger felt poetry was most appropriate for discussing truth, as the natural process of pulling information, analyzing it, and pushing it back out might best be achieved without potentially false forced ontology. Keats loved the “negative capability” of Shakespeare…” @six18sfoundry.bsky.social
The Finding and Making of “Saints & Symbols”
When I read Sebald or Nabokov I am seated in my apartment in New Hope or maybe walking in Norwich, or the Congo, or Ithaca, or Zembla — or Eden. Are
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The Madhymaka Prasangikas couldn’t have said it any better themselves…
Derek Johnson@derekjesq.bsky.social · 8mo ago“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin on the subtle impermanence of phenomena: "What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives." #BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.
Condolences to her entire family and all those who loved her… May her memory serve as a blessing…
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo agoBreaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz
RIP to a very brave soul and her young family. May her words serve as a reminder to never take this very precious human life for granted, even for a moment…
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” —Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us. – Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
Boris Johnson: "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious"
A piece that made me grateful for my NYTimes subscription… preserving the history of a certain late 20th century literary world that we likely won't see again. I mourn this loss every day as a Gen Z-er.
A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins
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