blind faith

March 24, 2009 Uncategorized

I spend a good portion of the day researching the difference between vartma-pradarsaka guru, patha pradarsaka guru, and pravartana acharya. I then spend a much longer time thinking about gurus, and faith, and what my next steps in Krishna consciousness will be. My faith took a heavy blow several years ago, and it is only [...]

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The Gift, the Giver, and Giving: Part One

March 3, 2009 Uncategorized

In this post I’m experimenting with voice, that elusive quality that makes a piece of writing recognizable, entertaining, and memorable. There’s a wonderful essay by Louis Menand, part of a book review in the New Yorker, which deliberates on this feature of literary expression, and which helped me to understand some things that had been [...]

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My Almost-Hook-Up with A Young Brijbasi Guy

March 2, 2009 Uncategorized

My friends (Oh, Lord, I just sounded like John McCain for a moment there), I’ve stayed up this late because it took me this long to screw up the courage to make a blog post, and because I couldn’t think of anything to write until I found the following transcript on my desktop. This is [...]

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How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci

February 24, 2009 Uncategorized

I’ve wanted to be a Renaissance man ever since I first heard of it, like, fifth grade or so. They call them polymaths now. Leonardo da Vinci is the quintessential polymath, as this article shows. I’m happy to say that I share at least one obvious quality with il Signore da Vinci: we both are [...]

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