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In my last post, I promised to install a what-I’m-reading-now gizmo in my sidebar, and to do so pronto. And that was 3 or 4 days […]
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Ring out the false, ring in the true
January 1, 2008. Akemashite omedetoh gozaimasu. Out with the old, in with the new. Time to take stock and to plan ahead. Blah, blah, blah.
During 2007 I put up a total of 30 posts on Milinda’s Questions. On average, about once every 12 days. Not a […]
The Difference Between Religion and Science
This post is motivated by a discussion I’ve been having over on Unknowing Mind, which has led into the similarities and differences between science and religion. The long quotation I’m about to present seems to me to present in particularly perspicuous fashion the essential differences between the two activities and their accompanying attitudes, and […]
Coup in Burma?
An e-mail I just received this afternoon from Ashin Ariyadhamma links to this Newsdesk Special story claiming that General Maung Aye, second-in-command in Burma’s military junta, has stage a coup against Than Shwe. Earlier I saw speculation concerning a split in the junta’s top ranks at mizzima.com, a Thailand-based website reporting news from […]
Great Travel Books
The folks at Concierge.com (a site somehow associated with Conde Nast Traveler) have compiled a list of the greatest travel books. (Actually, the list was compiled by an allstar panel that included Jared Diamond, Robert Kaplan, Jan Morris, Paul Theroux and Gore Vidal.) At 86 books, it’s a lengthy list, although some of […]
Vesuvius Day Linkdump
On the 1,928th anniversary of the destruction of Pompeii, let’s see what’s erupting around the Internet.
Here’s a review that my friend Darien Large wrote several years ago of Roger Penrose’s Shadows of the Mind. There’s a lot of other interesting stuff in the Daliverse; browse around a while.
I recently discovered that Peter Medawar’s classic […]
Zizek’s critique of Buddhism
I’ve recently run across several interesting items in the blogosphere concerning Engaged Buddhism. Given my penchant for cutting-and-pasting large chunks of undigested text, it’s really too much material for a single post, so I’m going to split it up over several installments. (Spitting out large undigested chunks is a whole lot easier than […]
The last of his line?
Kevin Kim offers a juicy bit of dharma gossip I hadn’t heard before:
Rumor has long had it that the current Dalai Lama might simply announce that he is the last incarnation of his lineage. I think this is a clever political move (the metaphysics don’t concern me much, as I don’t subscribe to […]
