Creative Writing

Poems: a collection of poems I have written over the years.

Songs: the tracks of a music CD I had produced. All music and lyrics were written by me. The arrangements, engineering and production were done by a studio professional.

Sanchin: a short coming of age story set in feudal Japan.

The Practice Of Happiness: short book summarizing what is known about happiness and practices known to increase it.

The Practice Of Power: An expanded section of the above Practice Of Happiness which focuses on how the psychological concept of the shadow operates in our lives and how it can be enlisted to our benefit.

Articles:

Africa’s Dark Age: journalism style article comparing modern day Africa’s situation with that of Dark Age Europe.

The following articles about Buddhism were originally published by the on-line magazine LifeAsAHuman.

A Secular Buddhist View Of Spirituality: explaining that Secular Buddhism chooses not to label the unknown as anything more than that.

Buddhism As Technology: proposing that Buddhism is a form of technology.

Learning Buddhism: Getting Beyond Paradox And Confusion: explaining why Buddhism is challenging for the Western, rational mind to learn.

My Buddhist Practice Meets the Spectre of Death by Cancer: How my practice was challenged by the very real prospect of death.

Secular Buddhism And Right Association: reviewing the emphasis The Buddha put on cultivating appropriate friendships in contrast to the lack of social connection found in most modern Buddhist groups.

Buddhism and the Dragons Of Eden: why mindfulness is so challenging in the face of how our brains and minds evolved.

The Buddhist View Of Life As A Dream: Dabbling in Buddhism one soon encounters this idea of life as a dream. What follows hopefully explains what is meant by that.

Buddhism And The Romantic Poet: Buddhism is all about letting go of attachment while romantic love is all about desire. This article tries to explain how they are not actually mutually exclusive.