March 2025 – EMPTY CLOUD ZEN

some thoughts on certainty part 1

[AUDIO AND TEXT] Current events, especially in our home country, have been raising hackles within many of us, I suspect. That’s definitely true in my case. And in a continued effort to deal with my own resistance to what’s happening, I’ve started to consider the possibility that the problem is a sense of certainty. ThisContinue reading “some thoughts on certainty part 1”

some thoughts on certainty part 2

[AUDIO AND TEXT] Last week, we considered the notion of “certainty” as presented in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave. We saw a homily given by a fictional Roman Catholic Cardinal who asserted that holding to certainty is problematic, and that abandoning it can bring us to tolerance and unity. And in our practice, we’re taught thatContinue reading “some thoughts on certainty part 2”