Due to a recent meeting with another person interested in modern Buddhism, I have become interested in vipassana meditation and renewed a long interest in Buddhism. I have been reading a couple of books by Bhante G. from the Bhavana Society, and also my new friend pointed me to Access to Insight. which is a Theravada resource site.
I am interested in Theravada because it strikes me as being sort of a 'minimalist' Buddhism, although my recent reading has made me aware it is only one of the original conservative schools of Buddhism.
Why am I interested in Buddhism? I lean towards being a 'physicalist' in the sense described by Galen Strawson --- and I think Buddhism is an interesting 'spirituality' to fit in with this.
Really I've been interested in Buddhism for most of my life, along with Taoism. My original contact was through Zen references in the old TV series Kung Fu. (Yeah, yeah, I know . . .) I just haven't been looking at if for a while and I really think it is the most congenial 'religion' to my outlook on life
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