Posted in ramblings, zen on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is “Modern (skeptical) Buddhism”? The introduction of the Modern Buddhist Bible describes it as:
…more than a matter of simple chronology or a standard periodization into the primitive, classical, medieval, premodern and modern. Certainly modern Buddhism shares many of the characteristics of other projects of modernity, including the identification of the present as a standpoint [...]
Posted in books, ramblings on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The true challenge is to keep myself only restricted to the books I have already chosen. However, the fall-back of working at a library is that new and interesting books are constantly floating by my office. The following two have been including in my reading challege as well:
Neptune’s Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas by David [...]
Posted in books, ramblings on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, I have been working in a library for over four months now. Oh, it seems like so much longer. I mean that as a positive. I feel that I have picked up enough information recently to last me a good year, I think.
My point being is that I am constantly walking through the stacks. [...]
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