i finally finished this book, going on being, last night by Mark Epstien. I haven’t read his too previous books but this one apparently had a lot more personal references into the integration of the buddhist path with western physcology. I was definitely able to identity much more to the personal inquires and thought processes that he had gone through as he sought to reconcile the paradoxes of the path. interestingly, the two points that gave me much food for thought was the concept of “i am not” and the process of raising a family as a […]

so, i am a week away from a making a major turning point in my life, on a path a full time enterpretneur. the past year since orange has been operation, it’s been back and forth between contracts and orange. but now, as i approach that mythical number, which is only significant because i want it to be significant, it’s time to reconcile my work ethnics and my personal ethnics. although fimilar with numerous buddhist texts, i decided to pick up “the diamond cutter” from the public libaray. it’s a translation of the tibetean diamond sutra teachings […]