Thursday, January 05, 2012

what kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, really?

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/10/28/what-kind-of-buddhist-was-steve-jobs-really/

I need to come back to this.  Putting it here so that I don't forget.

One of the books that inspired Jobs to become interested in the process of "using the mind to watch the mind" was Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama who led a group of monks over the Himalayas in the 1950s to escape the invading Chinese army.

I am pretty sure that Merton met Trungpa Rinpoche while in Asia, and that he became interested in the meditation center in Scotland that Rinpoche had started.  But I have to check.

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