After a quiet day spent mostly in contemplation, you go to one of your favorite restaurants where you have a leisurely, delicious meal. The food – not always the kind you’re in the mood for – tonight hits the spot, the company is charming. Once you’ve finished eating, you sip your drink, chatting with your
Category: life
No Desire for No Desire
I can’t speak intelligently about the precepts of Buddhism because my knowledge is pretty shallow. After 17 years of Catholic school I feel like I have a slightly better grounding in Christianity. When I was a teenager I read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and I still remember parts of it. One section in
Clinging to the World
I was about fourteen when I realized I wasn’t a Christian. I wasn’t really raised anything in particular, my parents are both indifferent agnostics, but I went to Catholic school from the first grade on. Earlier if you count the preschool run by Peter Paul and Mary (no joke). As a child I sort of