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July 2006

July 05, 2006

Buddhism: a stream parable (part 2)

(continued from here...)The man had been taught to avoid the easier path, to seek out...

June 2006

June 28, 2006

Buddhism: a stream parable (part 1)

People sometimes say that right and wrong are relative. They say there is no absolute...

June 28, 2006

Buddhism: Anger and Frustration

Anger and frustrationWhat is the difference?In the first 18 years of my life, so the...

June 15, 2006

Politics: religion in the classroom?

Well, still avoiding working on philosophy papers, I've found an interesting note in another email...

June 14, 2006

Politics: the rhetoric of active citizenship

I received an email today from Howard Dean. I get emails from him from time...

June 12, 2006

Philosophy: strange questions

Sometimes, when people find out I'm a 'philosopher,' or just get to know me a...

June 07, 2006

Buddhism & Life: facing it

This is partly in response to a conversation with a friend about her life these...

June 03, 2006

Buddhism: seeking the phronemos, or “where do you throw your hat?”

I write this in partial response to a question casually posed to me by Paul...

May 2006

May 27, 2006

Buddhism: The lives of my cohort, six months later

My M.A. class in Bristol, from the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, was composed...

May 26, 2006

Philosophy: toward a masters thesis…

I'm beginning to plan my thesis here (a year in advance), having learned my lesson...

May 23, 2006

Philosophy: Heraclitus Redeemed (existentialism, evolution, and the universe: all in flux)

No man ever steps in the same river twice.- HeraclitusIn ancient Greek Philosophy, Heraclitus is...

May 19, 2006

Politics: President Gore and more

So I've only had one (I think) post on politics ever since I added it...

May 13, 2006

Buddhism: meditation on life

Finals week has ended, the runaway train of life has ground to a near halt....

May 09, 2006

Life: almost there….

I'm in the home-stretch... four more days... Friday at 5pm, the last (except for one...

April 2006

April 28, 2006

Life : wowsers I’m busy…

(begun Friday around 1pm)One week, no posts! Sheesh.Forces of nature, academia, and all the rest...

April 21, 2006

Life: Poetry and an Unexpected Guest

I arrived home tonight (home being a house near campus where I'm house-sitting) to find...

April 17, 2006

Life: surviving finals

My schedule for the next three weeks will be insane, or at least close to...

April 12, 2006

Philosophy: Sartre on Love (with Kantian and Buddhist rejoinders)

Monday we covered Sartre's section Concrete Relations With Others in "Being and Nothingness". It paints...

April 11, 2006

Buddhism: Duhkha: Suffering: Change

Yesterday Ana left to return to Spain, and I returned to work, engulfed in sadness....

April 05, 2006

Philosophy: Conspicuous Consumption

The road trip is over, I'm back in Missoula, back at work, back at school....

March 2006

March 29, 2006

Life: In Las Vegas

"Vegas Baby, Vegas"-Trent and Mikey, SwingersI'm in Vegas now with Ana on day two of...

March 25, 2006

Buddhism: Recordings

Beyond the wonderful Ashes and Snow I experienced tonight, I also wandered through some videos...

March 25, 2006

Buddhism: Reconnecting

"My heart is like an old house whose windows have not been opened for years."A...

March 18, 2006

Life: Speaking of Catholics

Today John Dunleavy, organizer of the Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade kindly compared Gays and...

March 17, 2006

Life: Happy Birthday, Dad!

My dad turns 57 today. Those coming from good Catholic families will not be surprised...

March 16, 2006

Life: Calls to Action: Save Seals, Write a Letter, Think before you Eat

Well, the Sartre test is over (I did ok), and I've recently received some good...

March 13, 2006

Philosophy: (3 of 3) Zen & Ethics

(beginning here)On my retreat I also did some work on a little moral dilemma I've...

March 13, 2006

Buddhism: (2 of 3) Zen scriptures, here, now

(beginning here)One doesn't go on retreat trying to 'work out' emotional/personal/intellectual issues or problems. Yet...

March 13, 2006

Life: (1 of 3) Zen and the art of Retreat

mmm.... post retreat bliss.I am just returning from two nights in the mountains of northern...

March 10, 2006

Philosophy: wut i lernd 2day, or, airing academic angst

Why is it that philosophers get caught up in such inconsequential minutia - why is...

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