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September 2014

September 17, 2014

Notes on teaching Buddhist philosophy

I'm teaching Buddhist philosophy in Bodhgaya, India at the moment, so much of my blogging-life...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week four – “What is the *you*, anyway?”

I have slipped a bit further behind this week, I'm afraid, and with some upcoming...

April 11, 2014

Coursera’s Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week three

I'm a bit later than usual posting on week 3 (week 4 lectures have just...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Coursera’s Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week two

It has been a busy week here, with a trip to Cheltenham to lead metta...

March 27, 2014

Stephen Batchelor and Ven Brahmali debate in Melbourne 2014 – Pick your winner

You can now watch this debate between the famous "Secular Buddhist" Stephen Batchelor and Ajahn...

March 24, 2014

Mary Midgely, a Philosopher you should know

She studied philosophy at Oxford and rubbed shoulders with greats like Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth...

March 21, 2014

Coursera’s Buddhism and Modern Psychology : week one

Buddhism and Modern Psychology, a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), started yesterday. So far it...

March 17, 2014

Buddhism without Superstition: with Owen Flanagan, Julian Baggini, and Tim Lott

"Is it possible to take an ancient comprehensive philosophy like Buddhism, subtract the hocus pocus,...

January 2014

January 18, 2014

R.I.P. David Kalupahana, a giant in the field of Buddhist Philosophy

The Colombo Page, a Sri Lankan online newspaper, has reported that the great writer and...

October 2013

October 09, 2013

Introducing the Middle Way Society, an interview with Robert M. Ellis

Today we're interviewing Robert M. Ellis, a UK philosopher and formerly ordained Buddhist (in the...

October 07, 2013

Buddhism: religion or philosophy?

This is the question again, raised by the renowned philosopher Michael McGhee for the UK's Guardian...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Are Mormons Christians? Defining Religious Identity

“Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed...

September 16, 2013

Kenneth Folk vs the Speculative Non-Buddhists

As Western Buddhism has grown in the last 50 years, and especially with the proliferation...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

The Word ‘Revolution’

In which I meander through four philosophers: Weil, Marx, Kant, and Scruton and, somewhat strangely,...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Quick takes: Technology and why you shouldn’t fly an airplane in a moving car

Note: in order to continue sharing and discussing the myriad things that come my way...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Sensual Pleasure Versus Spiritual Pleasure in Buddhism

This is Ajahn Brahmali, talking at the Buddhist Society of Western Australia about much of...

June 22, 2013

Buddhism’s Dalai Lama nods to Secular Ethics

While murder, bullying, exploitation and scandal regularly make news, when thousands of children receive their mother’s care...

June 06, 2013

The Devil is beating his Wife: Joys and Perils of English

George Bernard Shaw once said "England and America are two countries separated by a common...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

Buddhism: religion of the internet? Digitizing the word.

The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), has a couple podcasts and articles this week on this...

May 03, 2013

A recent Catholic take on Buddhism

My news feed had an interesting title in it a week or so back, "In...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Jesus & Buddha: Practicing Across Traditions, a review

I sat down over the weekend to watch (for a second time), this short documentary,...

March 04, 2013

Buddhists, Books, and Technology

The Huffington Post has a good article out today on Buddhism and technology: Om Mani...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

Would a Buddhist Affirm that belief in God is a Delusion?

Last month a handful of great minds met in Cambridge, England, for a debate. The...

February 14, 2013

Better than Zizek: a critique of Contemporary Spirituality (and many Buddhists) worth investigating

I just finished listening to a podcast interview of my friend David Webster on CBC (Canadian...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Two Buddhisms, Authenticity, Abortion, and Universal Love

These are a few of the topics, essays, and projects you should know about this...

January 21, 2013

In case you missed it: the full Mind and Life 2013

Below are the youtube recordings of this year's Mind and Life conference, "Mind, Brain and...

January 14, 2013

The philosopher Kant, a Buddhist Saint, and Happiness

In my regular bits of avoidance and procrastination tonight (I have a lecture tomorrow that...

January 10, 2013

Nietzsche meets the iPhone

The BBC has a story this week titled "Can filming one second every day change...

November 2012

November 11, 2012

Toward a (Good) Buddhist Fundamentalism

I thought about calling this post "Is Buddhist Fundamentalism like Christian Fundamentalism?" But after seeing...

November 03, 2012

Zizek waxes on about Zionism, Sex, Gangnam Style, Justin Bieber, the Pope, and Buddhism

Žižek, what can I say? He's at it again. Last month Žižek was in Vermont, not...

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