A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Friday, October 19, 2012

SHORT READS RELATING TO BUDDHISM

Harvey B. Aronson, Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2004).

Damien Keown, Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford & New York: Oxford U. Press, 2005).

Thomas J. McFarlane, ed., Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, with an Introduction by Wes Nisker (Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2002) (From the backcover: "This unique collection of parallel quotes reveals how modern science and ancient Eastern thought lead us to the same deep truths. Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings shows how seemingly opposite endeavors--scientific observation and spiritual contemplation--have produced amazingly similar ideas about the nature of the universe and our place in it....").