by Vishvapani | Sep 22, 2011 | arts, Reviews
The powerful imagery and intense personal vision of the London-based Jewish artist and sculptor David Breuer Weil makes him an heir to Epstein, Kitaj, Freud and Auerbach. This article recalls my own connection with David, which goes back to our time as fellow...
by Vishvapani | Sep 19, 2011 | Buddhism in the West, Mindfulness, Practice
Around the world scientists are avidly researching the effects of mindfulness and meditation practice. The results are coming in and the are showing that they help you sleep better, avoid depression, make more rational decisions … and they change the shape of...
by Vishvapani | Sep 13, 2011 | Ethics, Thought for the Day
Listen to the talk here My relief that the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic is at last being subjected to international justice has a personal dimension. My father’s family were Jewish victims of the Nazis and my grandfather died in Sobibor Concentration Camp, so I...
by Vishvapani | Sep 7, 2011 | Comment, Ethics
The problems of the financial crisis stem from deep set beliefs. Try looking at money through a Buddhist lens … When Lehman Brothers Bank collapsed in October 2008, threatening to take the rest of the banking sector with it, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of...
by Vishvapani | Sep 2, 2011 | Buddha, Buddhism, Reviews
Like many literary youths just out of college, Pankaj Mishra dreamt in his early 20s of being a writer. He holed up in the Kashmiri Himalayas of his native India to read and reflect, and he found his imagination caught by the maroon-robed Ladhaki monks. Dreaming of...
