Anyone who’s been tuning in here during the past week hoping for a continuation of the Great Karma Debate has been sorely disappointed, for which I apologize. For one thing, I’ve been busy; I suppose I can now officially add “freelance programmer” to my list of occupations, having had a bid on a project […]
Milinda’s Questions
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A haiku . . .
based on a quotation from Ernest Hemingway.
That death loneliness
comes at the end of each day
wasted in your life.
Karma = Causation?
There’s an “Interfaith Blog Event” going on at 3 different blogs. The topic is karma, and it’s being written about simultaneously by Mike at Unknowing Mind, Jon Pennington at Jesusfollower’s Journal, and Sojourner at A Pagan Sojourn. Mike writes from a Mahayana Buddhist perspective; the orientation of the other two writers is described […]
This is not a 9/11 post
At Flapping Mouths”, there’s a discussion of “eyes-open vs. eyes-closed” question that always arises when meditators from various traditions get together.
BTW, the anecdote/koan that gives FM its name is worth repeating in its entirety:
Four Zen monks were meditating in a monastery. All of a sudden the prayer flag on the roof started flapping. The younger […]
Perfessers
In his NYT Book Review piece on Michael Bérubé’s What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, Alan Wolfe makes the following claim:
[Bérubé convinces me that [David] Horowitz is as unpleasant as he is ungracious. But he does not persuade me that Horowitz is wrong. I’ve taught in at least two universities known for their leftism, […]
Conscious plant people?
(go here for an explanation of that heading)
Philosopher Pete Mandik was interviewed for an article on consciousness in vegetative patients in today’s Wall Street Journal; Pete tells us about it at Philosophy of Brains. Apparently when you give verbal instructions to vegetative patients telling them to imagine doing certain things, there’s activity in the […]
Labor Day Roundup
There’s an interesting discussion on ethical relativism going on over at atopian.org. Said blog is written by Alex Gregory, who describes himself as “a philosophy student at a UK university,” and says that he “tend[s] to write on a combination of ethics and political philosophy, from a consequentialist perspective.” The discussion begins with […]
