Ten years ago today I took what turned out to be one of the most important steps of my life: I attended a Tuesday night beginners’ drop-in session at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.

The story actually begins two years earlier, in ( Read more... )

Last Saturday our dharma book club discussed a book I recommended. This post captures some of that discussion, and why I chose the book I did.

When I was first asked to pick our next book, it was pretty obvious to me what my selection would be: Alan Watts’ “Wisdom of Insecurity”Written in 1951 by a British scholar in comparative religions, it was ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”.

I’m not a big fan of Eckie. Like Landmark Education, he cherry-picks ( Read more... )

I joined LJ six years ago, on February 16, 2002.

It’s kind of amusing that my fourth and fifth posts, on February 24th 2002, discussed the first steps I took on the long path of philosophical inquiry I’ve been on in the years since. So this journal is all bound up with my review of my previous Existentialbeliefs, a survey ( Read more... )

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Among the books I got this Xmas were two with a common theme: bicycle racing. Having little else to do this week, I sat down and read them both on Saturday, and I found an interesting, if not totally unexpected, commonality.

First, I’d like to share a few citations with you. I’ve kept a larger part of the context, but I’ve bolded the particularly ( Read more... )

So, having just finished William Barrett's "Irrational Man", I was ( Read more... )

One of the gifts I asked for and received over the holiday season was ( Read more... )

As noted earlier in this journal, I've recently embarked upon a study of ( Read more... )

Having already developed a strong personal philosophy outside of any structured study, I bought the book ( Read more... )