The Buddha Diaries
Blog URL http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com/
Located Los Angeles, California USA
Tags Buddhist teaching, current affairs, politics, fine art, film, cultural affairs
Looking at world events and personal life though the lens of the Buddhist teachings
Latest Blog Posts
- Addendum on Nov 26, 2009
As a footnote to this morning's entry, please read this note in today's "Arts Briefly" in the New York Times, and see if you don't want to throw up. Or throw something. "Someone had to write us a check." Indeed.
- Thanksgiving: Only Connect on Nov 26, 2009
I woke this morning with the familiar quotation from E.M.Forster on my mind. Only connect. We had been talking about this yesterday at breakfast with our friend Les, who is visiting from Las Vegas--about that sense of isolation which we often feel...
- Just Taking a Moment... on Nov 25, 2009
... today to draw your attention to this article in yesterday's New York Times. It reports on a survey by a non-profit organization called Leveraging Investments in Creativity in conjunction with Princeton Survey Research Associates International an...
- A Slow Day on Nov 24, 2009
Ellie came back from her morning walk with her friend Nancy and told me, as we were getting breakfast together, that they had been talking about me behind my back--specifically about their mutual perception that I am always in a rush, always feeling...
- Culture Vultures on Nov 23, 2009
(Our weekend in Los Angeles... continued.)We were looking forward to a fine theater experience on Saturday night--that is, until we got there. But more of that in a moment. On the way over to Westwood, we stopped at a couple of galleries we had mis...
- Art Rounds 11/09 on Nov 21, 2009
We're in town for the weekend, and will be spending the better part of it checking in on the art galleries to see a number of shows we have been postponing. Yesterday, Friday, we started out at the furthest point from our house, LA Louver Gallery, w...
- The Teaching on Nov 19, 2009
So here I sit, wondering about what the teaching might be, about those light bulbs I was writing about yesterday. And about the new problem that came up only a few minutes later, when our whole telephone system went haywire--on precisely the day whe...
