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thinkBuddha - Wayward Thoughts on the Buddhist Way

thinkBuddha - Wayward Thoughts on the Buddhist Way
A site for reflections relating to Buddhist practice, meditation, philosophy and ethics.
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Karma, Retribution and the Actress
2008-06-06 12:24:00
Thoughts on Sharon Stone and the Chinese earthquake.
More About: Actress , Karma
Meditation and Technique
2008-05-29 22:01:00
Ajahn Sujato and meditation techniques.
More About: Meditation , Technique
Noble Silence?
2008-05-21 22:14:00
Silences, noble and ignoble
More About: Noble , Silence
Burma
2008-05-09 09:17:00
A fund-raising appeal for Burma
The Ocean of Existence
2008-05-07 09:38:00
On life out of sight of dry land.
More About: Ocean , Existence
Strokes of Insight?
2008-04-25 17:20:00
On Jill Bolte Taylor
More About: Insight
New Forums
2008-04-24 10:05:00
A link to Loden Jinpa’s new forums.
More About: Forums
Without Illumination
2008-04-23 20:11:00
The fog of philosophy
On Desire
2008-04-16 08:55:00
Link to online review of William B. Irvine’s On Desire
Unconscious Decision Making
2008-04-15 16:53:00
More research into free will.
More About: Decision , Decision-Making , Decision making
Free Will and Ethics
2008-04-08 17:58:00
Do we need free will to make us good?
More About: Ethics , Free , Free will
The Pragmatic Buddhist
2008-04-03 17:54:00
Some reading matter!
More About: Buddhist
Putting Shantideva to the Test
2008-03-26 23:50:00
Happiness and ethics.
More About: Putting , Test
Tune In!
2008-03-24 16:35:00
Story on Radio4!
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Just War
2008-03-20 11:53:00
Five years in Iraq.
Kindness and Philosophy
2008-03-10 14:00:00
Where are our philosophies of kindness?
More About: Philosophy , Kindness
Knowledge, Freedom and Limitation
2008-03-02 19:27:00
The pleasures of not knowing.
More About: Freedom , Knowledge
The Hard Truths of Science?
2008-02-22 19:13:00
Thoughts on the communication of science.
More About: Science , Hard
Vain, Deluded, Pigheaded, Secretive, Bigoted...
2008-02-14 13:53:00
Thoughts on Cornelia Fine’s book, “A Mind of its Own”
More About: Vain
Site Update
2008-02-08 11:04:00
A small change to thinkBuddha.
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Meditation as Unphenomenology
2008-02-07 10:00:00
Meditation, cartography and the territory of the mind.
More About: Meditation
The View from the Chariot
2008-01-30 11:03:00
The Buddha: bad psychologist?
More About: The View , View
Philosophy and Practice
2008-01-25 19:27:00
The other day I was at the university attending a seminar on practical philosophy. The seminar was being led with considerable verve and gusto by Italian philosopher Franco Volpi, who was talking about practical philosophy, drawing on Foucault’s book The Hermeneutics of the Subject, a book I haven’t yet had the chance to read. The main thesis in the talk was that there has been a tendency in the Western philosophical tradition to conflate what Foucault call the “care of the self” – the various practices that make up much of Hellenistic philosophy, for example Stoicism – with knowledge of the self – the Socratic imperative. As a result philosophy has become impoverished. Something that was always meant to bring about a good form of life becomes merely a means of airy speculation about the world. Here is what Wikipedia has to say on Stoic practices: Philosophy for a Stoic is not just a set of beliefs or ethical claims, it is a way of l...
More About: Practice
A Secular Age - Reviewed
2008-01-21 10:54:00
A new review online at thinkBuddha.
More About: Secular
A Secular Age
2008-01-21 10:40:00
A review of Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age
Studying Happiness
2008-01-10 16:53:00
Thoughts on happiness and meditation.
More About: Happiness , Studying
Meditation as Natural History
2008-01-07 10:30:00
Meditation, natural history, and medieval books of beasts.
More About: History , Meditation , Natural , Natural History
Happy New Year
2008-01-01 11:37:00
New Year ’s Greetings
More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year
Buddhists in Bars with Balloons
2007-12-30 22:59:00
Buddhist monks and balloon sculptures.
More About: Bars , Balloons , Buddhists , Allo
Worldly Transcendence
2007-12-24 10:08:00
Do we need God to be happy.
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