Blues for Buddha
Blues for Buddha by Jed McKennaBlues for BuddhaBy Jed McKennaBeing critical of Buddhism isn't easy.Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture, inspiring statuary, ancient history, the Dalai Lama what's not to like? Everything about Buddhsim is just so... nice. No fatwahs or jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or pederasts, just nice people being nice. In...
Enlightening Cinema
Enlightening Cinema by Jed McKennaEnlightening Cinema By Jed McKenna"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad." -Morpheus, The Matrix This isn't a movie review list and it's not comprehensive. It's just some notes about a few movies I think are...
Impersonating Jed McKenna
Impersonating Jed McKenna by Jed McKennaImpersonating Jed McKennaBy Jed McKenna"No man is a prophet in his own country."That line keeps running through my mind as I sit over lunch with my sister who I haven't seen in several years. These days I'm the enlightened guy, but to her I'm just the bratty kid who couldn't make eye contact when she wore a bikini.It's summer '01 and we're having lunch in lower Manhattan. She read a preview copy of Damnedest and has had a few months to digest it. It...
The Bottom Line
The Bottom Line by Jed McKennaThe Bottom LineBy Jed McKennaWhadda ya know?Seriously. With absolute certainty, what do you know? Put aside all opinions, beliefs and theories for a moment and address this one straight question: What do you know for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe... through church and...
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