author – James J Jackson

The Burden of Empathy : Preface

The Four Noble Truths of the Buddha Life is suffering. The cause of suffering is desire. The cessation of suffering is possible The path is the way to the cessation of suffering. The Eightfold Path Right View Right Intention Right Speech Right Action Right Livelihood Right Effort Right Mindfulness Right Concentration

There Will Be Peace, Revolution, and One

The archaic always seems to have its place. Whether we like it, whether we know it, is another matter all together. Is their any real poetry in these words? Is their any real phonetic surprise, any peak. Perhaps, but more than anything, their is return. Their is the same thing that has long cycledContinue reading “There Will Be Peace, Revolution, and One”

And the Old Ways Die

Finally a break in the waves and the old ways die. No art must always surface in the tragic but in the emotion in the raw and its reality to the observers situation. What phenomena, the fact we observe, where in this neural web and drowned cave is this observer, where indeed? I wantContinue reading “And the Old Ways Die”