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 […]
Milinda’s Questions
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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 […]
Meditation & Medication
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
