Inspired by the Tibetans and Waking up with Sam Harris

It was only with my recent visit to Nepal, and visiting the Tibetan Refugee Camp of Pokhara, that I learnt more about the history of Tibet and Nepal. (with accompanying books of course ... and some museums on other topics. )

How the young 14th Dalai Lama as a 16th year old, together with his then government, became a Government-In-Exile in India since the 1950s and the politics have somewhat stagnated in this same chessboard position since.

Beside reading about the whole episode from books with great interest I also regained interest in mindfulness meditation, which had already been in my mind for years.

For a striving academic, library-goer or more simply a lover of books/knowledge, your self/mind is the only thing stopping you from doing more with less.

Having followed Sam Harris' podcast for quite some time, I just started reading his book of 2014 since it was recommended as an expository text alongside introductions to mindfulness meditation

In it, it is argued that spirituality should be a part of all human's conscious life, despite it being so often lacking in the lives of many atheistic and agnostic folk.

TAGS: meditation

References

1. Jha, P. (2014). Battles of the new republic: a contemporary history of Nepal. London: Hurst & Company.
2. Goldstein, M. C., & Rimpoche, G. (2008). A history of modern Tibet. Vol. 1: 1913 - 1951: the demise of the Lamaist state (1. paperback printing, [Nachdr.]). Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of Calif. Press.
3. Jha, P. (2014). Battles of the new republic: a contemporary history of Nepal. London: Hurst & Company.
4. Harris, S. (2014). Waking up: A guide to spirituality without religion. Simon and Schuster.