A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Why
become enlightened? This is a question I sometimes ask myself. The
answer I give is twofold: to make the world a better place and to avoid
the pain of clinging to an existence that is unhappy.