Editor reviews are provided by professional editors who evaluate a blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.
I spent the day yesterday making my first fool attempt at translating a sutta from Pali into English. I did this for a few reasons. One is that the particular sutta, MN 117, suddenly seems important to me, since I saw something in its depths that I...
Because, for me, meditation tends to a bit of a grind, I’ve set the title of my most recent upload to youtube to poke a little fun at how dull it can be. I have to push myself to “sit” and I often blame those background-running cognitive processes...
The very first comment I’ve gotten on the talks posted to youtube was left soon after I put up SB002: Why Skeptical Buddhism? The writer questions the value of the choice of looking deeply into Buddhism when instead “one would be better served by...
Saturday I was at the library reading stories from the Pali canon, which started out as a bit of a grind. I had already read several short pieces that lacked the setting and author; most of the suttas start out with the place and players but this...
