MaryAnne brings up a good point and I agree that it's possible that what may look like real pain is actually just a reflex action but one of the reasons I tend to believe that fish feel real pain is …

So, as some of you may have noticed, I had a slight problem with Christianity. Well, to be honest it was far worse in real life than what has come through here. Realizing I was uhm shoveling gravel o…

Does anybody know of a website that allows a download of audio dharma and suttas that also works in a structured way. I have found some sites but they can have 10,000 audio files which is a bit daunt…

I'm not being flippant about life here, I'm talking about an actual MMORPG I've started playing called The Age of Wushu. Important stuff: It's currently in the Beta stage and free to play. The offici…

Don't know how many of you have seen the new movie, released in December, but it's really worth the view. It does contain some nudity and sex, but no full frontal. I don't recall any violence. From a…

Most of us, or maybe it's just me, are superficial practitioners. We expect someone else, or some group or some teaching to do the work for us, then tell us what to do, when and how.

I've been thinking about right view. I was thinking if our situation (being unenlightened humans destined for death) could be described in some metaphorical sense it would clear things up. I was kin…

Read a very interesting article on gun control the other day. Imo, it actually managed to stay rather unbiased, and instead focused a lot on the mentality behind gun culture and just WHY people feel …

I have another few points to bring up about desire, this is really causing me to hit a wall here as I am kind of getting it but at the same time it seems almost impossible to achieve, although I am r…

'Life is in the breath; therefore he who only half-breathes, half lives'