Rock Climbing...mostly bouldering, but with a desire to move to more trad; Pool; Chess; Reading in general, with a leaning towards non-fiction; exercise, yoga, spinning , pilates, lifting; languages; politics; philosophy; Buddhism; Vedantic Thought; Puzzles an Logic Problems...Mixed Martial Arts...etc.
There are several members of the Buddhist community that I would love to meet, having been quite impressed with their writings and such talks as I have heard of theirs. A few of these include Ken Mcleod, Joan Hallifax, Stephen Batchelor, and Allan Wallace...a list which is hardly conclusive. There a few yogis, but one whose show I have followed from a afar is Steve Ross. More common names include, in no particular order, Bono, Arundhati Roy, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Gere, Conan O'Brien, Kenneth Brannagh, Patrick Stewart, Tavis Smiley, Randy Couture, Arun Gandhi, and Jimmy Carter...a catalogue far from exhaustive...Chris Sharma, or Jason Kehl might for example be added.chris sharma climbing witness the fitness
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My tastes are eclectic....Latin music is especially resonant with my individual despite my lack of thorough familiarity with it; Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass are pleasing on the ears, and classical....some country, such as Johnny Cash, some Willie Nelson...classic rock...and hip hop and rap are engaging...but again I have little formal knowledge. I simply enjoy the sound.
The Matrix, and the sequels thereto, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Star Wars...I am resisting the temptation to apologize for so cliche sounding of a list; The Terminator trilogy, especially the first two; The Iron Monkey; most Jet Li films; Scent of a Woman; Monsieur Ibrahim; In the Heat of the Night; North by Northwest; Hamlet (Brannagh version); Bourne Identity; The French Connection and it sequel; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Dirty Harry; Pale Rider; Unforgiven; Lawrence of Arabia; etc.
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Of late, The Shield....what a delicous melange of moral ambiguity...Frasier; Star Trek, TNG, and Voyager; PBS...NOW, Frontline, Independent Lens, Antique Road Show, Secrets of the Dead...C-SPAN and C-SPAN2...especially Book TV; BBC; Deutsche Welte; etc...
The Myth of Sysiphus; The Rebel...both by Camus; Brothers Karamozov; The Idiot by Dostoevsky; Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy; Several works by Thomas Merton, including, "New Seeds of Contemplation", and "Confessions of a Guilty Bystander"; Several works by Chogyam Trungpa, including "Sacred Path of the Warrior"; A great deal by Thich Nhat Hahn, including" The Miracle of Mindfulness"; Several works by Thomas Hardy, and his poetry; and lots by Aldous Huxley..."Time Must Have A Stop" on that list; and Shakespeare...and the writer of the Book of Ecclesiastes...to name a few....
Siddartha Gautama; Asoka; Dogen; Joshua, son of Jospeh, a.k.a. Jesus; Seneca;Henry David Thoreau; Frederick Douglas; W.E.B. DuBois; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Thomas Merton; Thich Nhat Hahn; and the innumberable who have renounced violence in going out to help the world....