Essays & Brief Notes

Below are recent essays and notes by Dr. Arredondo and colleagues.

Empathy and Attunement

It was a potato farmer who first taught me about empathy, and how it is connected to this idea of Attunement. As a young student,

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Jesus at the Burger King

Interstate Highway 89 crosses New Hampshire and leads to ski country in Vermont. During the winter it’s very crowded, but not nearly so much as

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Joan’s Envy

Joan is an attractive, educated teacher of third graders. Happy and content, she loves her husband, enjoys her work, and has great plans for herself.

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Rosie’s Halloween

It was Halloween, and all the weather forecasts said to expect rain. Parents everywhere were scrambling to find raincoats or other means by which to

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Family Tradition

Donna had been married for four years and now that she had a real home and a 3-year-old daughter, in an unspoken yet predictable rite

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Starting With the Small

It is when you are confused by the different (and sometimes conflicting) messages you get from your heart and mind that it is most difficult

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Attunement

There is a particular type of grin an infant gives that adults literally cannot resist. The grin is contagious – before long, the adult is

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Walking in Light

“Walking in light” is a metaphor for a state of being that is probably most accurately described as being in a state of grace. Walking

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Guilt and Shame

Many think that guilt can be fixed with punishment. The problem, though, is when you try doling out punishment to yourself – using your own

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Finger pointing toward the Way

For students of the way: Chuang Tzu’s succinct but impeccable ‘finger pointing toward’ the Way.  Useful also for those trying to decipher Krishnamurti (among others). 

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The Net of Indra

The NET OF INDRA is a visual metaphor that captures the essence of the interdependent and interconnected nature of reality. It is based on an

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Epitaph

Now, as all growth begins in the earth and returns to the earth, I am going to leave you and enter the gate of the

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Emptiness

In Buddhism, ‘emptiness’ is not nothingness, it is the fluidity of existence. It may be defined as the relativity of things, the transience of things,

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The meanings of Tao

Tao is a word full of meaning. It may mean to speak, or to guide. It may mean a principle, or a system of logic.

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Overlooked Dangers of AI: Consciousness

The current discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) significantly underestimates the implications of integrating AI with biological tissues. This oversight misses a pressing concern: the emergence

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