Supine Bovine

I practise meditation in the Theravada tradition of Buddhism. This, to use a really bad analogy, is sort of like the Catholicism of Buddhism...

I feel like I have to come clean. I mean, in my very first post (my first real one, anyway) I trashed the idea of God, the afterlife, et al...

So it's been what, a year, approximately? Got busy with work, etc., and found I didn't have all that much time to do this stuff any...

I am so ashamed right now. Last Friday night at my alma mater, the University of British Columbia, a group of some hundred students staging ...

I'm starting to get bored of writing about Tibet at all. There are lots of other things that annoy me that I would love to write...

So not much news has come to us from that mountain nation, Tibet, since my last post on the subject. The only real news is that, last I hear...

Having had the privilege of attending university I have, as a consequence, also had the not-exactly-a-privilege of being subjected to indoct...