The second section of my essay on the theories of immortality that I’ve personally considered.
To raise money for the Anymachen Tibetan Culture Center in Zhandetan, Qinghai, China, Rinpoche Tserin Lhagyal traveled across China seeking donations, and received them largely from Han Chinese, who make up 80 percent of his 1,000 contributors. Many donors say they view Tibetan Buddhism as an antidote to the materialism and greed that have flourished alongside China’s breakneck development.
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| — | Dan Levin, “Teaching Tibetan Ways, a School in China is an Unlikely Wonder,” New York Times, 28 January 2012, page A8. Modified to make sense as a quote. |
Occupy is opening up a space - the space of deliberative democracy - as a necessary counterpoint to the often overmanaged and media-controlled routines of official politics.
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| — | Harry Eyres in the Financial Times, “Life & Arts,” 28-29 January 2012, page 23. |
Ferry Building in fog, SF, 27 January 2012, around nine a.m. on Market Street. One block south, the fog was literally billowing down the street.
Cyril Connolly, himself not a notable hiker, once said that no city should be so large that a man could not walk of it in a morning.
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| — | Will Self, “Diary,” London Review of Books, 20 October 2011, page 38. An interesting criterion for setting a city’s limits. If you walk north, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco qualifies. Berkeley, too, north or east. |
