Today is my birthday and I am yearning for silence of a rare kind. I've been yearning for silence for years, as may be clear to one reading many of my preceding weblog articles here over the past five years or so. Today, as the sun rises and I am contemplating my life in the annual "it's your […]
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Awaken the deep: insights from a meditative adventure on the nature of Speaking and Being
First, a brief summary. This morning during meditation I was deep in my heart, listening, when I found myself arriving into a rare condition of clarity. It seemed to me as though I had entered a holy place within my soul, where the veil between heaven and earth is fading. My attention was in a […]
On writing what is impossible to say, on what cannot be said but only shown
I'm going to write about something that is impossible to say. And I mean quite literally impossible. Even the writing of it -- and your reading -- will capture only a glimpse of what I am communicating, though I will write quite a lot of words in order to provide the right context to that tiny […]
Somewheres about 10,000 hours into solving the Riemann Hypothesis, one encounters Dante's lion, wolf, and leopard
Introduction I'm not good at basic math. I struggle with many things which any decent mathematician aces early. For example, a few elements of calculus still remain over my head, although I have climbed the slopes of that mountain several times. Linear algebra is only just starting to make sense to […]