Inaugural Post

Welcome! This blog has been in gestation for a number of weeks now and I have finally found a block of time to get it up and running. My apologies for the rough and ready layout, but I shall be spending some time in the coming weeks, working on the design and the overall feel, so please be patient.

The objective of this blog (and I hope to eventually migrate this onto a full fledged website) is to provide a forum to build a community to discuss topics that are close to my heart. (You could also call these my all-consuming interests).

I have been spending a lot of time over many years and I hope to use this as a forum to synthesize some of my thinking on various topics. But in a nutshell they encompass Health and Spiritual Development, with an emphasis on Asian Philosophy.

My interest in the above probably started out some time when I was probably 11 or 12, where I would experience this feeling of uneasiness around dusk. This feeling was hard to describe but I can describe it as a heady mix of lethargy cum depression, with a heavy dose of fear mixed in. Oddly enough this feeling would fade as soon as it was night. (I am somewhat of a night owl so my energy levels revive in the evening - although I have been trying to change that as well as my sleeping habits - but more on that later.) Perhaps this is what is called a "Dark Night of the Soul"?

Anyways in order to cut a long story short I have been seeking to address this feeling ever since. In my next post I would like to write a little about how I came to an interest in Asian Philosophy, after taking the long way around, by studying Western Philosophy - first Analytical Philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill and then Continental Philosophy - Marx Hegel, Nietzsche, Heigegger and Satre.

Again please note that many of the opinions expressed in the blog are my own, and may yet be underdeveloped and needing refinement. Thus I would like to beg your patience on this matter and will at all times, welcome any opinions that you all may hold.