Justin Whitaker
- Age: 29
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Gemini
- Zodiac Year: Monkey
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Student of Philosophy, Religion, and life
- Location: Missoula : Montana : United States
- Wishlist
About Me
(The picture is of me in Glacier National Park, MT, Aug 2008) I am an almost-life-long Montanan; a baptized Catholic; an ardent Atheist; a practicing Buddhist; a lover of Wisdom. I find solitude to be as essential as air, though I am at times gregarious, and very often joyful, alone and with others. I laugh at my own jokes, love learning, and love those who truly love.... anything. I have certainty in little, and little time for those who are certain of much, though admire those whose certainty leads to service of humankind. I have a BA and almost an MA in (Western) Philosophy, an MA in Buddhist Studies, and am working on a Ph.D. in Buddhist Ethics at the U of London.
Interests
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Sociology
- History
- Science
- Yoga
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Phenomenology
- Geluk
- Gelug
- Dalai Lama
- Geshe Michael Roach
- Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
- American Buddhism
- American Buddhists
- Western Buddhism
- Modern Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Montana
- History
- America
- Europe
- The World
Favorite Movies
- Waking Life
- A Beautiful Mind
- Life is Beautiful
- Swingers
- The Wall
- Kundun
- Little Buddha
- The Princess Bride
- What the Bleep do we know
- Derrida
Favorite Music
- Beethoven
- Bach
- Tarkio
- Greg Brown
- Jude
- Faithless
- A3
- Keb' Mo'
- Moby
- Miles Davis
- Norah Jones
- R.E.M.
- Peter Gabriel
- Rufus Wainwright
- Van Morrison
Favorite Books
- Prisoners of Shangri-La
- The Diamond Cutter
- Lam Rim Chen Mo
- Liberation in the Palm of Your Hands
- The Agamas
- The Phenomenology of Spirit
- Ecce Homo
- The Anti-Christ
- Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Utilitarianism
