Properties of Rational Soul
These are the properties of the rational soul: it sees itself, analyses itself, and makes itself such as it chooses; the fruit which it bears itself enjoys- for the fruits of plants and that in animals...
View ArticleConversations with VS Naipaul
Have to say one of the brilliant books I’ve read this year; yes I even liked it more than the celebrated Patrick French Biography. This is a compilation of all the interviews of Naipaul from sixties...
View ArticleHappy Bday DFW….
A Radically Condensed History of Post Industrial Life When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring...
View ArticleExtract from The Supplication “Crying to the Gurus from Afar”
This wonderful prayer-poem written by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thaye, I find incredibly moving : In the beginning I had no other thought but dharma. But in the end what I have achieved will cause me to go...
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