Jp in SD

OK, so, like... after a couple years of having my blog elsewhere, i've decided to try using LiveJournal. Mostly, it's on the advice of a new friend.

So.. some quick facts about me (which you can also pick up on in my little bio section).

Yes, I am a vegetarian. I've been one for 20 years.

Yes, i'm also a Buddhist. It turns out that I had kind of been believing the same stuff about life, the universe, and our role in it for years and years before I had even learned what Buddhists were all about. When I started learning about Buddhism, and especially Theravada Buddhism, it was an amazingly good fit.

And that's the reason for the title of my blog; the "middle path" is the path away from the extremes of indulgence and self-mortification and toward the practice of wisdom, morality and mental cultivation .

In other words, the middle path is about finding a balance in life. This blog is about the people, places, and things I meet on that path.

It will also be a place for me to bitch about and/or make fun of the totally stupid people I meet along the way ;-)