Sunny Side Up

Ah, Saturdays in Brooklyn - I'm going to miss you! Today I went from the farmer's market (where I made a contribution to "text...

Had a quite fascinating conversation with a colleague who studies education today. My head is still abuzz with the miracle that was "B...

My final reflection for the "Buddhism and Modern Thought" class. It came at the end of a series of reflections, each as distincti...

"Religion and Modern Thought" came to a sweet end today. All of us - the students, me, and two researchers who've been observ...

The semi-serious soundtrack to "Buddhism and Modern Thought" got another number today. Better still, the song has actually feat...

Well, were we ever experimental in "Buddhism and Modern Thought" today. Could it be that we were "Zen" too? Our focus ...

Don't think that I have abandoned the effort to provide an accompaniment to "Buddhism and Modern Thought" of musical works. T...

As we near the end of Buddhism and Modern Thought, we finally have a syllabus! Well, we've reached the point where no further updatings...

What does non-self looks like? Today we learned it looks like this : Hsiao-Lan Hu brought "Buddhism and Modern Thought" to t...

"Buddhism and Modern Thought" began with a walk today. More specifically a group walking meditation, inspired by those led by Thi...

I'm having such a good time this year watching the treetops in the Lang courtyard step into Spring - wonders you'd never imagine fr...

As you may know, my life was changed by a Japanese Buddhist priest friend's quip, many years ago, that religion in Japan could perhaps ...

I'm preparing for tomorrow's "Buddhism and Modern Thought" class, our one session on Ambedkar's The Buddha and his Dh...

We've finished McMahan's Making of Buddhist Modernism , our big book of the semester. For today's class I asked students to co...

Interesting addition to our course soundtrack as we started the 2nd half of "Buddhism and Modern Thought" today: Joni Mitchell....