It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary ….

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don….

The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, t….

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outsid….

I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And ….

People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think..

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves..

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic..

I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively..

On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties..

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my abil….

Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen w….

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world..

I don't believe in sexual love..

What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically prese….

I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This….

She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable ….

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially lik….

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception..

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world..

The weird thing is, I'm not entirely sure that I am meant to think that such a gift is who I am according to the philosophy underlying Vedanta. But I….