The culture war wages on in the United States of America. To be sure, the country has never sunk to this level of divisiveness in my lifetime. Even during the criminal misadventure of Viet Nam, people mostly were civil outside of passionate protests. Today, politics ar...

As I awoke this morning, a thought crept into my wobbly consciousness and began to coalesce as my brain kicked into function. At the heart of my thoughts was the dilemna of perceptions versus reality.

Buddhism teaches that all is illusionary, that nothing has intrinsic...