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Middle Way Philosophy 3: The Integration of Meaning – now out
The third volume of the ‘Middle Way Philosophy’ series is now available. This volume builds on the embodied meaning thesis of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson and includes an explanation of this revolutionary approach to meaning, uniting cognitive and emotive meaning (e.g. dictionary meaning and ‘meaning of life’). It also makes extensive use of Jung’s … Continue reading
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We’re finally under way with a society to promote the Middle Way! At the end of the Middle Way Study Retreat held in August, all the participants agreed to create a society to promote the study and practice of the Middle Way. You can now read about it on our website, http://www.middlewaysociety.org . Why a … Continue reading
I picked up Alain de Botton’s recent book Religion for Atheists with a certain amount of curiosity, though not with very high expectations. In some ways it exceeds those expectations, and in others my misgivings are confirmed. I am glad that this kind of thinking is going on, and de Botton does it with creativity … Continue reading
The second volume of the Middle Way Philosophy series, The Integration of Desire, is now published. Click here for more details and to purchase. An ebook will also be available soon. Also see my previous blog post on this book. We like to think of ourselves as single selves, but when we examine our experience, it … Continue reading
It’s now a little over a year since I first read ‘The Master and his Emissary’ by Iain McGilchrist. My estimation of its importance has continued to grow during that time. When I first read it I wrote a detailed review, incorporated aspects of it into my own thinking and writing, contacted the author and had the … Continue reading
When I first started my work on the Middle Way, more than ten years ago now, I always wished to engage Buddhists in debate about it, and possibly learn from what they had to say. I have an account of what I think the Middle Way seems to be and why I think it is important, … Continue reading
Scepticism (or skepticism, US style) is potentially a big liberating factor in our lives, yet like most ideas that started off in a blaze of insight, it has become caught up in entrenched dualistic conflicts. All scepticism involves some degree of recognition of uncertainty about what others take to be true – but the crucial … Continue reading
Welcome to the new Middle Way Philosophy blog. The purpose of this blog is to help get people engaged with Middle Way Philosophy by commenting on recent public events and sharing some of my ongoing thinking. I have created a lot of materials about Middle Way Philosophy, both in the shape of five published books and in … Continue reading
- A new post over on the Middle Way Society site inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'Antifragile': link
- A new blog post over on the Middle Way Society on how we can make sense of the virtues of saints together with their belief in metaphysics. See http://www.middlewaysociety.org/franciscan-saintliness/
- A good easy account of 12 key cognitive biases here.
- I've made a new blog post on the Secular Buddhism UK site on faith and confidence: see http://secularbuddhism.co.uk/2013/02/faith-and-confidence/
- Are there five sorts of Secular Buddhism? A new blog on Secular Buddhism UK
- Secular Buddhist ethics - the elephant in the room This is a new blog post on the Secular Buddhism UK site: please follow this link for a discussion of the importance of ethics in Secular Buddhism, and how the Middle Way can help.
Robert M Ellis
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