Living is dying
Hello everyone, About 150 years after the historical Buddha died, a king named Menander encounters the venerated Buddhist monk Nagasena. The king did not know him and asked for a name. The monk provided his name, but added: "This is only a name, a denotation, a matter of conventional...
The Tragic and Utopian Visions of Human Nature
The Blank Slate is a book about the question of whether we are nature or nurture. Are we born like blank slates to be written on by our life experience or do we have an innate nature that remains consistent through our lives?...
Sakya Trizin Rinpoche and Jane Goodall
Hello everyone, Welcome to my very first email. Thank you for being interested in what I have to say. Highlights of this week: 1. Attending two talks by Sakya Trizin Rinpoche, a highly regarded figure in Tibetan Buddhism 2. Seeing Jane Goodall, the legendary scientist and conservationist live at her...