In Gulf War 1, I met an American marine who told me in quite an upbeat voice, "Hey man, I would just love to die for my country!"

Can I still have a hug? Okay today is my 45th birthday, I am in Utah visiting a friend and it is fun. I got a call from my daughter who is 21 and just just moved out again on her own, and she is preg…

Can I still have a hug? Okay today is my 45th birthday, I am in Utah visiting a friend and it is fun. I got a call from my daughter who is 21 and just just moved out again on her own, and she is preg…

My Mum (she's Japanese and from a Shinto Buddhist background) says tattoos are a way of telling people you're stupid, without opening your mouth.

"Death" is like "love" and "freedom" and "compassion" and "enlightenment" ... no one is shy about uttering the word, but they become extremely shy wh…

If you look closely at the Four Noble Truths, The Eightfold Path and the first Five precepts, you will note that there is nothing overwhelmingly and deliberately, blatantly, openly Buddhist there.

There was a case in the UK not many years ago where a group of 14-17 year olds, well 3 kids were drunk walking home and decided to damage a random car. The owner came out, a middle ages man with a fa…

Ada_B's post reminded me of this quite well known poem

Changing the way we conduct ourselves or our personality for that matter does take time, as Jeffrey stated. I consider it a lot harder than getting into shape physically.

I think that law is as good one. In the UK we can learn to drive at the age of 17, but to actually drive you have to have someone in the passenger's seat with at least 5 years of having their full li…