Visitors to this site who have been attracted by a series of recent posts may be wondering: what’s the connection between the Buddhism/meditation stuff and all this interest in psychopharmacology? Fair question; or two questions, actually. First question: What’s the relationship between the meditative practices that have developed in the Buddhist […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Moving up in the world
If anyone cares, I now have a Technorati Profile.
Dust to Dust
Here’s an interesting and beautifully illustrated post on the Nine Cemetery Contemplations.
H. H. on epistemology
This is by the Dalai Lama:
The reason why we find so much discussion of epistemology, or how to define something as a valid cognition, in Buddhist writings is because all our problems, suffering and confusion derive from a misconceived way of perceiving things. This explains why it is so important for a practitioner to determine […]
Philia
In view of how a recent discussion on this blog has touched upon Aristotle’s conception of friendship, I want to call attention to an article in Philosophy Now called Aristotle’s E-mail, Or: Friendship in the Cyber Age. The writer’s claim:
However, friendships of the good tend to be lifelong, are often formed in childhood or […]
A Sensitive Guy
I concluded my previous post on the “Prozac debate” by noting that Aspazia (whose views I was criticizing) presents her case in three online posts (”This Is No Mother’s Little Helper“, “The Psychopharmacological Hedonist’s Orthodoxy“, and “The Autonomy Enhancer“), and that the relationship between the arguments made in the three segments was unclear to me.
Aspazia’s […]
Nekkhamma
I found this in an interview with Ajahn Amaro at Inquiring Mind:
It seems to me that for many laypeople in our society who go to the nice retreat centers, the whole role of renunciation is excised from the Dharma field. Monasticism is forgotten or seen as a quaint lifestyle that happens off on the edges. […]
Review
A shorter version of my three-part review of Paul Griffiths’ On Being Mindless is now posted at Amazon.com.
This is my first Amazon review. Newt, here I come.
Religion and Philosophy
