Looking for spiritual and interesting people of any sex, age, creed, nationality or conviction. I would, however, love to get acquainted with someone who shares my fascination for Buddhism and ethics, but anyone's welcome to write.

I am *not* looking for a relationship​.

Buddhism and Buddhist Ethics, anything that helps me figure out what I'm supposed to be doing here on this planet, reading books, listening to music (love attending live shows), watching movies, enjoying poetry, watching and playing sports - football/soc​cer (Come on you Spurs!), weightliftin​g, boxing, martial arts, hiking/walki​ng, bicycling, philosophy (of life), East Asian culture - Chinese, Korean and Japanese for the most part.

I love all sorts of music, and listen to anything from Chopin to Outkast.  I do, however, lean towards the Alt. Country/Folk​-Rock genres. Artists and bands such as Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst, Mark Erelli, Calexico, Magnolia Electric Co., DBT, Steve Earle, Richard Buckner, Mark Lanegan, The Jayhawks, Okkervil River, Pleasant Grove, Ben Harper, The Everybodyfie​lds, and so on and so forth.

Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire), Faraway So Close!, Spring Summer Fall Winter, Ghost Dog, The Crow, Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Before Sunrise/Suns​et, Rocky :), Savior, Sling Blade, The Big Lebowski, The Fisher King, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Motorcycle Diaries, Bin-jip, Lost in Translation,​ Oldboy, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Dead Poets Society, As Good as it Gets, Snow Falling on Cedars, Chungking Express, Chinese Box, A Very Long Engagement, The Barbarian Invasions, The Sea Inside, Hero, Cinema Paradiso, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Station Agent, Blinkende Lygter, Chocolat, MASH, Into the Wild, The Indian Runner.. I could go on for a while.

I tend to like just about anything by Wim Wenders, Beat Takeshi, Kim Ki Duk, Wong Kar Wai, Jim Jarmusch and any movie starring Bill Murray, Chow Yun Fat or Will Ferrell. :)

My Name is Earl, Californicat​ion, Heroes. Prison Break was great the first season. I love real life adventure shows and travelogues,​ like Michael Palin's series, Long Way Round/Long Way Down and the new Charley Boorman series. Most of my favourite shows are old shows.. MASH, Twin Peaks, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Pretender, That 70s Show, Life on Mars, Carnivale. Love British murder mysteries like Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Wire in the Blood, Foyle's War. British comedy, too. Monty Python, Blackadder, Yes Minister and lots more.

Midnight's Children, The Moor's Last Sigh, On the Road, Dharma Bums, Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, Siddhartha, The Prophet. I read a great deal of non-fiction literature, especially books on Buddhism and Eastern thinking. Anything from the Suzukis to Krishnamurti​. I always have a book of poetry on my nightstand. Some of my favourites are Rilke, Rumi, Gibran, Peter Handke, Bukowski, Neruda, Eliot, some of the classics such as Blake, Whitman, Frost, Keats and so on... there are too many to mention. I also enjoy haiku poetry, especially Basho.

"Where ever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear."
- Shunryu Suzuki

"There shall be time no more."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another, till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."​
- Jack Kerouac

"If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live."
- Dainin Katagiri

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and that you are out there."​
- Yasutani Hakuun

"A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life."
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."​
- Rumi

"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else."
- Shunryu Suzuki

"Analys​is does not transform consciousness."​
- J. Krishnamurti​

"Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances."​
- J. Krishnamurti​

"So many people live within unhappy circumstance​s and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, conservatism​, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within man than a secure future."​
- Chris McCandless

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment"​
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"We shall not cease from exploration.​ And the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
- TS Eliot

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."​
- Kahlil Gibran

"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?"
- Chuang Tzu

"Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.​
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold​,
comes at long last over everyone."​
- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference."​
- Robert Frost

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!"​
- Dylan Thomas

"One cannot step twice into the same river."​
- Herakleitos

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dogen

"Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man."
- Miyamoto Musashi

"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high... so high, in fact, that even failure will have in it an echo of glory!"​
- Bill Nicholson