Tonight was the first night of the new Men's Mitra Group at my Buddhist centre. It was nice - as I said when we went round the circle and did the why-are-we-here thing, a big part of Buddhism is the sangha, the religious community, and by its nature, you don't get too much of that during two hours of silent meditation.So it was nice, I guess, to ( Read more... )

One of the unexpected benefits of doing a happiness project is that I've realised how much I love pop psychology books - I got through The Happiness Project and 59 Seconds in about two days apiece, whereas other things that I either did a degree in and thus really ought to be interested in (like my old tutor's biography of Alexander the Great or ( Read more... )