If you haven’t experience Second Life yet, you really should. Talk about putting a whole new face on advaita! It’s a world… that exists purely in your imagination. You have a body… but it’s imaginary. It exists only on your computer screen. Are you the character that talks with your voice? Or not?
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Bob turns 79 this week! Yes, guru’s apparently get older and have birthdays, just like the rest of us. Send him your best wishes here!

Thanks to Goofy for bringing this to our attention.

Thinker, philosopher UG Krishnamurti dead.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
BANGALORE: Thinker and philosopher UG Krishnamurti has died at Vallecrossia in Italy aged 89.
Krishnamurti, lovingly called UG by his friends and admirers, had slipped and injured himself seven weeks ago and was bedridden, his friends said.
UG’s [...]

I’ve been reading Leonard Cohen’s latest collection of poems, “Book Of Longing“, and I am really enjoying it. Here’s one I thought you might enjoy:
“What Did It”
An acquaintance told me
that the great sage
Nisargadatta Maharaj
once offered him a cigarette,
“Thank you, sir, but I don’t smoke.”
“Don’t smoke?” said the master,
“What’s life for?”

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Mark Hallett, a researcher with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said, “Free will does exist, but it’s a perception, not a power or a driving force. People experience free will. They have the sense they are free.
“The more you scrutinize it, the more you realize you don’t have it,” he said.
That is [...]

Want to come on the show? Now you can. Here’s how it’s going to work.
Step 1. I will post up the future schedule (a few weeks in advance) to a Google Calendar. You can view it here.
Step 2. If you want to come on any particular episode, look to the associated post up on the [...]

Hey folks
I’m going to be in San Fran for the next few weeks. Any of you in that general area who want to catch up for a coffee let me know! You can reach me on my email or my US cell 310 9900666. I also need a sofa to sleep on! :-)
Cam

Yesterday I had a chat with a couple of friends about, among other things, free will. If you’re interested, check out the podcast here.

I’m sorry you missed the party. We had fun. But if you’re just discovering the show, you need to start at the beginning. Here’s a link to the first episode. If you start there and work your way forwards, you’ll see the same questions and the same themes emerging over and over. So then, by [...]

Just an update folks. I spoke to Bob for the first time in four months yesterday and asked him if he was interested in starting the show again. He said something like “It’s just the same questions from the same people over and over again.” So I guess that’s a no. You can always go [...]