The Zen of yourself

Monday 4 February '08

Once on a crowded street in Japan, Buddhist monk Rinzai Roku was sporadically thrashing his arms around as though he wanted to slay someone with a sword.

An agnostic’s grasp

Monday 21 January '08

People who say they are agnostics — popularly defined as those who hold that the existence of God and the essential nature of things...

From dust to dust

Monday 30 April '07

Over the last few weeks, as the world called for action on climate change, I wondered what it was all about.