About These Notes
This is my record of some thoughts triggered in an attempt to understand why things are the way they are (if they are, in fact, really that way!). This also serves as a ‘bridge’ for news stories and reports about global issues not readily seen in the mass media.

About Me
My Work Experience includes roles as a Submariner, a Nuclear Engineer, a College Dropout, and an International Business Executive.
By way of Personal Philosophy, I try to practice the Teachings of the Buddha, Gotama Siddhattha. I consider myself to be concerned about the Spiritual but not Religion.

About the Title
In the Ayacana Sutta (SN 6.1), the Buddha after his Enlightenment questions whether he will be able to teach anyone else to see the Path because of the delusions and cravings to which they are addicted. But the Buddha is assured by Brahma Sahampati that there are those in the world with only a “little dust” in their eyes and that by teaching the Dhamma to them the dust will be washed away and they, too, can begin to see the world clearly.
Writing this weblog helps me to “wash the dust from my eyes”.

About the Header Graphic
Impermanence – Writ Large:
Perhaps nothing signifies to us the illusion of permanence (a major Buddhist theme of these notes) so much as a towering, ageless mountain. But consider the following:

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain’s summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,364 feet (2,550 m), and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.3 km³) in volume, making it the largest in recorded history. (Wikipedia)

For a full view of Mt. St. Helen, click here.

A catalog of the books that inform these Posts can be found at LibraryThing.

Other websites I have created/manage are Bellanwila.org (a Sri Lankan Buddhist temple) and ParamitaIBC.org (a meditation centre near Kandy).