Sunday, January 29, 2006

Lamrim.com - Buddhist radio?



If you don't have access to a good centre where you could listen to good discussions or explanations about the buddhist philosophy, try Lamrim.com

It is an internet radio based out of California. I doubt that they have extra large bandwithd and all that so the quality of sound is quite poor in some instances [if you have ears that were born in another langage like mine, you may find the lectures difficult to follow sometimes] but it's worth a listen. I found the lectures of Robina Courtin particularly animated and easy to understand from a western point of view.

Friday, January 06, 2006

What is my mission?

I suffer from the ailment of not knowing what is my path. Or at least, I suffer from thinking that there is such a thing as finding 'your path'.

I am pretty sure a lot of people suffer from the same thing in this day and age. In silence. Unlike the whinny me.

You see, I am reading the new Paulo Coelho book 'the Zahir' which is his fantasist auto-biography of sorts. In it, so many references to 'instinct' and 'risk' and 'success' that it makes me think: "what is my own path", How come I haven't been able to find it? What did he do that I didn't?

Is there such a thing as a path, and one thing that one excels at? Or is there multiple possibilities, and it is often the fact that we have to make a choice that kills us!