This morning, I realised that I had been sitting at my desk far too long, and – looking out of the window and seeing that it was one of those luminous late autumn days – I switched off the computer and we headed out for a walk by the river, which runs...

Last night, I packed up my belongings, loaded them on the back of my trusty donkey, and moved the entire contents of thinkBuddha.org (and various other sites as well) to a new server. Now that the donkey-work is done, I’m now settling in to my new...

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...