Intellectual Archive
Amod Lele: The Love of All Wisdom
Harvard Ph.D. graduate and occasional Mudita Journal commenter Amod Lele (see here and here, for example) has started a new blog called "Love of All Wisdom" that some of you might enjoy exploring. His political ...
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Do not miss Bill Whittle’s PJTV response to Jon Stewart
This response to Jon Stewart by Bill Whittle is so incredibly good that I decided to become a paid PJTV subscriber, strictly to help support their new business model.
(If you've not seen the full ...
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Mudita Forum is now at Google Groups
March 18, 2009 · Category: Buddhism, Eckhart Tolle, FLOW, Individualism, Integral, Intellectual, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mudita Forum, Objectivism, Witness Consciousness
Check out the new Mudita Forum, if you think you might be interested.
The purpose of Mudita Forum is to provide a stimulating, thoughtful environment for discussing Eastern consciousness-raising practices — such as meditation, mindfulness, and ...
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You know that guy who proseletized me with a Bible? He was a good man.
February 17, 2009 · Category: Integral, Intellectual
Thanks to Andrew Schwartz for bringing this to my attention. Very good stuff. I like it when people can understand one another despite having very different beliefs; and Penn's commentary here is an ...
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The new Amazon Kindle. Hmm….
The new Amazon Kindle actually looks pretty fantastic. It appears to solve several of the problems I have experienced, over the years, with reading on my Treo and my iPhone:
The Kindle is more like ...
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Sage insights about the “ownership society” and how it relates to the financial crisis
I've been a late-comer to the Volokh Conspiracy party -- I remember hearing its name for many years and skimming many posts before realizing why it was such a big deal, and worth reading regularly ...
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Bill Whittle on the significance of Sarah Palin
September 6, 2008 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
If you only read one thing all week about the election, read this.
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On keeping our heads, and hearts, this election season
I received the following from a new reader, Andrea Pflaumer. She offered that I could publish it here for Mudita Journal readers, and I'm delighted to take her up on the offer.
For the next ...
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Eastern traditions and the moral-practical unity
August 22, 2008 · Category: Buddhism, Intellectual
In a friends-only post (which he's given me permission to quote here), Joe Duarte wrote:
...I've always been struck by similarities between the Objectivist approach to ethics and politics, and the sage wisdom of Eastern traditions ...
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FLOW: Markets in happiness and well-being
I've been greatly enjoying my monthly newsletters from FLOW, because these guys are genuinely committed to exploring the reconciliation between liberal values (of personal development, generosity, community, and peace) and free markets.
Below is their latest, ...
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