Autobiographical Note

I am one of those people you call a citizen of the world. I belong everywhere and nowhere. I am always an outsider. This accords well with my practice, because it is better not to stay at home where attachment and aversion are strong.

I enjoy my itinerant lifestyle, student, scholar and teacher by turn. But I also enjoy getting away from my desk. I like swimming, doing yoga, intelligent company, and I enjoy good food. I like nothing better than getting into the kitchen to prepare one of my favourite dishes, perhaps a hearty traditional recipe from Tuscany.