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Altruism, selfishness and purity: Saturday September 5, 2009
Can there ever be such a thing as pure altruism?
No Faster Than a Camel Can Walk: Sunday January 14, 2007
Trains, camels and other alternative means of transport.
Buddhists in Bars with Balloons: Monday December 31, 2007
Who’s that over there making balloon sculptures? It must be a Buddhist monk.
Tigers, Mushrooms, Money and Monks: Monday September 26, 2005
A fashion for tiger-skin in Tibet is threatening to hasten the extinction of the Indian tiger.
Lose Weight: Convert to Buddhism: Tuesday September 26, 2006
Forget that diet – change your religion instead!
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Meditation as Natural History: Monday January 7, 2008
Meditation, natural history, and medieval books of beasts.
Muddling Through: Wednesday May 10, 2006
Gary Snyder, attentiveness and knowledge
Things Worth Knowing: Friday August 7, 2009
The stuff we know (or claim to know) and a few thoughts on ethics.
Buddhism and Philosophy Part II - Practices of Freedom: Tuesday December 6, 2005
Philosophy and Buddhism as practices of freedom.
Marvin Minsky's Dreams of Immortality: Wednesday October 17, 2007
Transhumanism and the salvation of the world.
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Featured Articles
Zen, Brains and Making Friends With Your Own Head: 10 Nov, 2008
It’s a complicated business having a brain.
Lies in Which not Everything is False: 10 Sep, 2008
Stories – they are nothing but a pack of lies.
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: 30 Oct, 2007
Aidan Delgado on Buddhism, ethics and the war in Iraq.
Baboon: 06 Jun, 2006
Feeling like a grumpy old baboon?
Meditation as Unphenomenology: 07 Feb, 2008
Meditation, cartography and the territory of the mind.