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Music: The psycho-physical organism is suffering according to the Buddha (S.iii.158). The mental components of the psycho-physical body are feeling, perception, habitual tendencies, and sensory consc… (View Post)
Cloud: Emptiness is privation (a state of lack; the absence of). It is nothing ontological, not by a long shot. In the Heart Sutra we learn that the five skandhas, for example, are the privation of s… (View Post)
Surely if God exists, he doesn't help his creatures. Speaking with candor, with such power why does God seldom uses it for good? Justice is lacking in this world. And why are all God's creatures cond… (View Post)
BoatS:I used to just react and respond how I saw fit, but now I witness what I was going to say and perceive the impact of those words/actions. It almost feels as if I am not be genuine to my true de… (View Post)
music:Science aims to be objective but in doing so employs a fiction - so though an abstract 'truth' is created to strive towards, there is no guarantee that there is such a truth... Well said. Longi… (View Post)