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What do you make of a moment when you real­ize the you are a super-structure, or an out­crop­ping, and that the foun­da­tions that you relied on blindly aren’t squarely placed on earth, but are adjunct and extra­ne­ous? We are seduced by the frag­ile beauty of these images when we encounter them: beach cot­tages on stilts, […]

Bud­dha told a para­ble in a sutra: A man trav­el­ing across a field encoun­tered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Com­ing to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung him­self down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trem­bling, the man looked down to […]