Richard Oh

I’ve always dreaded traveling. Don’t get me wrong though. I’m not some larded ass who prefers the familiarity of one place to another or some loon with a developed case of phobia for strangers. I’m way more ahead than any one of these fellows. I love the tingling serenity of the cabin, peering out through [...]

Quatrains of Rumi Translated by John Moyne & Coleman Barks 83 Pages Shambhala Listen to presences inside poems. Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises. (p.37) This Rubaiyat is one of the 166 quatrains in Unseen Rain. Written in the ecstatically spontaneous middle period after Rumi’s [...]

Identitas bagi kebanyakan orang adalah selembar kartu nama yang mengukuhkan keberadaan mereka dengan sebuah nama, profesi dan kedudukan. Memperhatikan khaos yang terjadi selama sepuluh tahun terakhir, saya merasa ada perlunya untuk mendalami makna identitas. Karena identitas ternyata adalah biang yang memporakporanda berbagai negara, memecahbelahkan bangsa-bangsa, dan memposisikan manusia yang paling tidak politis sekali pun di [...]

The God Delusion By Richard Dawkins Bantam Press 406 pages Richard Dawkins makes no bones about his intentions in his ninth book, The God Delusion: he wants to convert whomever that reads it into an atheist. He believes that it’s time atheists of the world unite and come out in the open. Being an evolutionist [...]