The last few weeks have been fearsomely busy, and so I have not had the chance to update thinkBuddha very much of late. It is not that there are not any thoughts flying around that I want to explore here; it is only that they are still mid-air, and...

A couple of weeks back, I received an unexpected request. Would I be willing, the email asked, to participate in a University debate about the existence of God? Now, I should say that the existence of God is not a subject upon which I am in any way an...

I remember a friend once saying to me that he thought there were, roughly speaking, two kinds of philosophers in the world. The first kind, when presented with a problem, is the type of person who says, “Hmm… how can we solve this one?”; and the second...

Just time for a quick post, amid the frenzy of the beginning of a new term at the university. A few months ago, I wrote a review of Ralph Flores’s book, Buddhist Scriptures as Literature, in the Western Buddhist Review. This morning I heard from Marcus...

I’m thinking once again about free will again (see my previous posts here, here and here), having recently read Sue Blackmore’s Ten Zen Questions. And once again, I am baffled. Free will is something that I have been puzzling over for a long time now,...