Web Notes: March 2023
Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more
Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more
Some dissenting voices. ...more
Kosho Uchiyama's commentary on Dōgen's early text. ...more
On Fukuyama's defense of liberal ideas. ...more
Dainin Katagiri on Zen and Dogen ...more
Notes from one of the best books on writing I have read. ...more
A few years ago I tried listening to Dainin Katagiri's lectures on Apple Podcasts. Dainin Katagiri was the founding abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditat… ...more
What I read this past year and some desiderata for the next. ...more
Moving away from Jekyll. ...more
Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more
I have used Apple Notes before for note-taking and Scrivener for journaling. Over the past year, I have switched to Obsidian for both these activities… ...more
This is the most I have written publicly in any year. It has mostly been book reviews. Despite the lack of quality, the overwhelming feeling I have is… ...more
Notes on Graeber's 2011 book. ...more
Recalling my earliest memories. ...more
While looking into understanding the Dvaya Mantra, meditation on which is regarded by the eleventh century theologian Ramanuja as one of the duties of… ...more
Some notes from SM Srinivasa Chari's Vaishnavism: Its Philosophy, Theology and Religious Discipline. In Vaishnavism, kaiṅkarya is a service (seva) r… ...more
Kuvempu's first novel. ...more
An axiom ...more
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ...more
An examination of the past self, a stranger who one is intimately familiar with and yet whom one cannot identify with. An examination of a madness. Wr… ...more
Mary Oliver's essays. ...more
Book: God is Dead, There is no God: The Vachanas of Allama Prabhu Author: Manu Devadevan Manu Devadevan's translations of a selection of Allama Prab… ...more
Reaching, stretching, screaming, looking, listening, dancing, To watch a little one express herself in the world, this absorption, is this wh… ...more
To serve him. ...more
Book: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo Author: Peter Heehs Aurobindo was active in the Indian public life from the years 1906 to 1910. Of that, he spent a… ...more