hows it been, juantoo3? i haven't been around the message boards all that much lately, but I've had more time recently to follow some the threads...
I would say that, although you cannot literally be only what you perceive, one's perceptions and their interpretations of those perceptions can...
I can't really bring myself to see anger as something that must inherently be extinguished. Anger is a perfectly natural human emotion... and in...
Well, my difficulty with the question is that this venn diagram you posted presumes that the 'ego', on one hand, and 'reality-as-it-is', on the...
If anyone is interested, Alan Watts autobiography, In My Own Way, has recently been brought to press again for the first time in years. Until now,...
I recently read Zen Master Who? myself, and for me, the notes on Suzuki's jingo-antics were definitely new information. I've read a good deal...
I finished reading it just yesterday. I almost want to reread it after I've gotten through my next book, since it presents a good deal of...
I was just reading Zen Master Who?, which is a book by a Western Zen teacher named James Ford, who is also the founder of Boundless Way Zen...
I'm not particularly familiar with Egyptology or the pyramids, so I can't say either way, really. However, as concerns Hawass' reluctancy to...
Re: the greatness of Gautama, of spitting and bowing before Buddha's images. Susma- I can't help but realize that you seem to be quite proud...
Well, Susma, I don't know if such sentiments are realistic, at all. Firstly, let's compare 'Gautama the Terrible' with somebody who is, let's...
LOL...what's so bad about Pali? From my understanding, Pali is, in fact, a type of Indian Prakrit, with which you seem to be much more at ease.
Susma Rio Sep- Again, as I posted a while back, nothing particularly hateful is involved. However, that the paragraph in question which you...
Firstly, I don't consider this to be particularly hateful. At least the author expressed his 'take' on Buddhism without resorting to name-calling...
Well, I certainly understand what you mean. I think you will find that different types of Buddhism, as well as individual Buddhists, interpret...
I remembered reading about invisibility cloaks many months ago. I was able to find the link. It's at HowStuffWorks.com, which is a pretty cool...
Well, to begin with, speaking of Hell or Hells is not solely for the purpose of striking terror into the hearts of men. Even people that aren't...
You are correct in saying that unholistic science is an insufficient entity to be used as an end it itself. Intuition and intellection are...
juantoo3- My only goal in that post was to show the unlikelihood of dinosaurs existing alongside humans, as it might be argued by science. In...
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