Posted in Book Reviews, Current Affairs on Sep 30th, 2011
What Science Has to Say About Our Stuff and Happiness Even as we rush to the mall with our credit cards, we’re likely to be repeating to ourselves and telling other people that we know “stuff” does not make us happy. Yet our governments still measure citizens’ well-being in terms of economic output [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Sailing on May 18th, 2010
Here’s a shocking report on AFP that speaks for itself.: Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear in 40 Years: UN By AFP May 17, 2010 “AFP” — NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the fishing industry, UN experts said Monday. “If the various estimates [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on May 13th, 2010
Here’s a headline and news story that caught my attention – it was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which is not usaually a source of alarmist environmental doom. The story speaks for itself. The notion that so much life on earth might be wiped so that humans can do whatever we want surely puts [...]
Posted in Life Skills, Sailing on Mar 15th, 2010
Even when “Adventure” is our middle name, we often shrink from making too drastic decisions that would really cut our lives adrift from the sameness and security that we also like to enjoy day to day. And how can anyone just “sail away” when they have children and want to give them the best of [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Mar 13th, 2010
It’s with considerable relief that I’ve received comments on my recent post Goodbye mother Ganges. I long delayed even publishing the post because to some, who had seen a draft, it seemed unnecessarily pessimistic. Who wants to hear a foreigner being critical of India’s headlong rush to consumerism? However, in the end, I decided it [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Mar 9th, 2010
Unless more rain falls, India’s ambition of becoming a vast consumer society is an impossible dream from which the vast majority will be excluded because of water shortages. In the headlong rush to become consumers, few people inside India or outside are asking whether it is even possible for more than one billion people to [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life Skills on Feb 12th, 2010
You are what you eat, having become what you ate. I’ve written two previous posts about food and some of the alarming aspects of what’s on our plates, how it got there and what it’s doing to the land, the people, the animals and society. I am very grateful to my friend Professor Magdalena Krondl, [...]
Posted in Buddhism, Current Affairs on Feb 11th, 2010
You are what you eat, having become what you ate. Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago. What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.” Not so very different, I would argue. So what do [...]
Posted in Life Skills on Jan 14th, 2010
Here we are in the middle of one of the major shopping periods – the January sales – in many parts of the world. So maybe it might be useful to count all our belongings. What really belongs to us? How much of our “stuff” is really ours.
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do each day - and accepting whatever happens, happy or hard.
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