Web Notes: March 2023
Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more
Should Art Always Serve The Present Moment?
Some dissenting voices. ...more
Bendōwa
Kosho Uchiyama's commentary on Dōgen's early text. ...more
Classical Liberalism
On Fukuyama's defense of liberal ideas. ...more
Each Moment Is The Universe
Dainin Katagiri on Zen and Dogen ...more
Book Notes: Several Short Sentences About Writing
Notes from one of the best books on writing I have read. ...more
Every Moment Is An Emergency
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
State of Reading 2022
What I read this past year and some desiderata for the next. ...more
Migrating to Zola
Moving away from Jekyll. ...more
Web Notes: December 2022
Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more
On Obsidian
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
A Year of Writing
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
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Notes on Graeber's 2011 book. ...more
Some Memories
Recalling my earliest memories. ...more
An Exegesis of Dvaya Mantra
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
Kaiṅkarya
Some notes from SM Srinivasa Chari's Vaishnavism: Its Philosophy, Theology and Religious Discipline. In Vaishnavism, kaiṅkarya is a service (seva) r… ...more
Kanooru Heggadithi
Kuvempu's first novel. ...more
The Golden Rule
An axiom ...more
That Book From Stephen Covey
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ...more
Simple Passion by Anne Ernaux
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
Two Mary Oliver Books
Mary Oliver's essays. ...more
The Vachanas of Allama Prabhu
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
கவிதை #1
Reaching, stretching, screaming, looking, listening, dancing, To watch a little one express herself in the world, this absorption, is this wh… ...more
Baby Talk
To serve him. ...more
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
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