Search found 13 matches
- Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:28 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: I should be more like my dog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1366
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:20 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: George Carlin on 'possessions'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1424
Re: Quotes -
"One who can't cast away a treasure at need is in fetters." - Aragorn
- Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:58 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: The Most Buddhist Song
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1917
Re: The Most Buddhist Song
A Noel Coward song called "Wait a Bit, Joe".
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:57 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The beauty of Reddit
- Replies: 1
- Views: 705
Re: The beauty of Reddit
Thanks for the link!
Lots of funny, interesting stuff if you don't mind being grossed out once in a while.
Lots of funny, interesting stuff if you don't mind being grossed out once in a while.
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 12:09 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: What is Truth?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8710
Re: What is Truth?
Vladimir Nabokov said something like, "Reality is a word that has no meaning without quotation marks." Real for me might be subtly or drastically different from what real is to someone else. Sure, mathematics can describe an objective truth, but describing is not proving.
- Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:18 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: "Under my thumb"
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3204
Re: "Under my thumb"
How about:
Elvis Costello - "Two Little Hitlers"
or
Iggy Pop - "I Wanna to be Your Dog"
Elvis Costello - "Two Little Hitlers"
or
Iggy Pop - "I Wanna to be Your Dog"
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Neuropsychology & buddhism?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2385
Re: Neuropsychology & buddhism?
Dear Admiral, I've had to deal with a lot of doctors and I've never met one who wouldn't have benefited professionally from exposure to the Dhamma. One of my sons is autistic and has epilepsy. Our choices for treatment were always either neurology or psychology, neither of which is especially effect...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:50 pm
- Forum: Dhammic Stories
- Topic: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4618
Re: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
FRIED RICE
Oil, garlic, onion, pepper, CHICKEN, fish sauce, ginger, pea pods, rice, EGG, spring onion.
The answer is chicken.
Oil, garlic, onion, pepper, CHICKEN, fish sauce, ginger, pea pods, rice, EGG, spring onion.
The answer is chicken.
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:54 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Dalai Lama criticises anti-whaling protesters
- Replies: 100
- Views: 15001
Re: Dalai Lama criticises anti-whaling protesters
I have a great deal of respect for the Dalai Lama as a high profile advocate of non violence and Buddhist unity. However, he is also an exiled head of state and has to play politics as much as any other politician. I think his comments had nothing at all to do with whaling and very much to do with c...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:25 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: The human/animal realm
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3301
Re: The human/animal realm
I think it would be good to remember that 'evolution' is not the same thing as 'progress'. Huge numbers of species evloved into organisms that couldn't survive.
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:29 pm
- Forum: Dhammaduta (Dhamma propagation)
- Topic: Dana - suggested places to make donations
- Replies: 78
- Views: 176547
Re: Dana - suggested places to make donations
I given recently to the Buddhist Relief Mission and Khmer Buddhist Relief. A positive experience with them both
http://www.khmerbuddhistrelief.org/index.htm
http://www.brelief.org/
http://www.khmerbuddhistrelief.org/index.htm
http://www.brelief.org/
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:46 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello to Everyone!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 978
Hello to Everyone!
I have been reading posts here for some time, now I won't feel so much like an eavesdropper.
Thanks to all for many interesting and informative discussions.
Many are way over my head but I can still read and pretend to understand, can't I?
Thanks to all for many interesting and informative discussions.
Many are way over my head but I can still read and pretend to understand, can't I?