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November 2009

November 09, 2009

AAR Montreal photos

My view(s) for the day as I stayed in today, furiously reworking my paper for...

November 08, 2009

Name Two Favorite Christian Theologians

More from AAR...Brian, a friend of mine from this summer's China travels, will interview today...

November 06, 2009

The Bells of St. Patrick

Grass blows in the wind above meTrees, planted on balconies, brave Canada's cold...Perhaps the start...

November 04, 2009

A Phenomenology of Joy

When I'm not busy being a crotchety academic, marathon runner, meditation poster-boy, autumn-leaf photographer, one...

November 02, 2009

The self is real, just not really real.

That's a quote (or very close) from a recent interview with psychologist Mark Epstein, featured...

October 2009

October 29, 2009

Travel the World, See Strange Things

From a taxi in Shanghai: It's an advertisement for a device that will "shape your...

October 29, 2009

Breathing Life Into Creativity

There is a new TED talk this month, by designer Stefan Sagmeister (thanks to my...

October 23, 2009

Slow Down People Breathing

Polebridge, MT. Photo by Julie.

October 19, 2009

icebergs are buddhist monks

icebergs are buddhist monks i send forth,released into the world from the great monasteries of...

October 19, 2009

A return to Glacier

Julie and I made it back to Glacier National Park this weekend, exactly one year...

October 14, 2009

Gratitude, Nerves, and Academic Adventures

Big sigh as I just completed my online CV for the American Academy of Religion...

October 11, 2009

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism

Luckily Amazon isn't always flaky, and this week suggested a book I would love to...

October 10, 2009

Omens of Cold

Awakening in a world of white,Early, I suppose, these days.August snow memories,From childhood come to...

October 08, 2009

Discoveries only a nerdy scholar could fully appreciate

"It's the little things," my roommate said to me today with excitement, upon discovering that...

October 07, 2009

appetites for oughty things

Philosophers can be funny too:2009 dialectica essay prize (£500): 'ought'*******************************************'Ought' is one of the most...

October 05, 2009

A Pause for Metaphysics

Some people like to say the Buddha didn't do metaphysics. Or that he did ontology...

October 05, 2009

A Pause for Mettā: Loving- kindness

My great thanks to Andrew Olendzki and Dharma.org for a great chart (a .pdf) of...

October 02, 2009

Placebos are Getting Better

I wonder just how far this goes - the placebo effect that is, the idea...

October 02, 2009

Sometimes Computers say the darndest things…

In my inbox today:Dear Amazon.com Customer, As someone who has purchased or rated Buddhist Ethics...

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Settling the Mind

Little mind wanders. It jumps from tree to tree. It spins stories like yarn until...

September 28, 2009

Sublime Dwelling of the Source

That's me. I'm something like the 9th stage in some sub-lineage of the Chinese Master...

September 23, 2009

26.2 Miles, 3hrs, 50min, 51.25sec

A Marathon. I've read that only 1 percent of humanity will ever run one.The funny...

September 19, 2009

Shotgun-blogging, life, karma, labels

After the very kind, funny, and ego-inflating mention over at Zen Dirt, Zen Dust, it...

September 14, 2009

A Great Weekend

I have a couple good philosophical posts on the way, but for now, a bit...

September 10, 2009

Psychology of Happiness

I am doing some research on metta-bhavana (cultivation of loving-kindness) meditation and, along with a...

September 05, 2009

A Proud Fundamentalist Buddhist Scholar White Guy in America

I'm not sure about that title, but judge for yourself.I want to try to tie...

September 04, 2009

Shakespeare and Sunsets

Last night Julie and I and Blake and Amy and her new roommate made our...

September 02, 2009

Gratitude Journal

I am long overdue for a post specifically on Gratitude. It is gratitude that connects...

September 01, 2009

China: The Longest Way

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4636202&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on...