THE MIND'S KNOWING ESSENCE - MORE EARLY MORNING TWEETS

The Lee Kuan Yew school is - potentially - one of the world’s highest leverage institutions.  How can it fully realize that potential?

The primal delusion that mobilizes the forces of greed and anger is always cunningly concealed in the deepest resources of the heart. MCK

The mind’s knowing essence is a vast awareness; an unobstructed inner space that contains everything but retains nothing. MCK

Easter Morning Query: God has given me gifts for which I am thankful.  Am I fully using them in the service of God’s purposes? 

New early morning reading.  HH Dalai Lama, ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM. Reference: ENM

The contemporary rhetoric of growth and economic development reinforces people's tendency toward competitiveness and envy. ENM

“Carew” birds early morning calls. Memories of the quiet Sri Lankan garden view, writing Paradise Poisoned. 

DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MODULES AND MORAL VIRTUE - RECENT TWEETS

(The MCK quotes are from Book on a Thai Bhikkuni – Mae Chee Kaew, my recently completed contemplative practice reading.)

Awake at 4:30.  Thinking about dynamic systems molecules.  How can I best share them with my students?  At 5:15, I got up, and began writing.

What could be more fulfilling to a Professor than to have students producing work that exhibits disciplined learning and creativity? 

Moral virtue is subtle and complex.  It cannot be attained merely by reference to precepts and rules.  It must be an expression of the mind’s pure intentions.  MCK

All must die.  We can’t know when we will die, for certain. But we can be certain that death will come when the time is ripe.  MCK

Rules must be accompanied by empowering those “ruled” not to follow them for good reasons and to change them when circumstances dictate. The absence of such empowermen is a problem in many organizations.  As I learn more about Singapore, though I know very little as yet, I am concerned that in this very organized and smoothing functioning society, it may be a problem as well. 

Seeing stubbornness, gloom and delusion in themselves, intelligent people look for their own faults rather than faulting others.  MCK

The primal delusion that mobilizes the forces of greed and anger is always cunningly concealed in the deepest resources of the heart. MCK