Greetings to all. My Name is Bob. I am from Boston, MA. and currently live just outside the city. I will be 59 in may, I am retired with three beautiful children, 19, 17, and 13. I am married to a wo…

@Aspiring_Buddhist

@Bunks, maybe we can talk in PM or email. My 17 year old son has AS, and his father did as well. So I have been dealing with it since my son was a young child and also with his father as an adult (wh…

Some of the most realized people I've known don't even realize they are realized. They don't think anything special of it, they don't practice anything. They don't read sutras or bibles or Bhavaghad …

We don't swear a lot, but on occasion. We make up funny words to replace what would be more swear words, it takes the anger out of situations and makes them silly. But the older kids especially (11 a…

The heretical Rabbi, Yeshua of Nazareth, spoke of a strange and elusive concept he called The Kingdom of God. Something that was yet to come, yet strangely present in the Here and Now; within ourselv…

I'm curious about people's interpretations of the following excerpt from the Lion's Roar sutta, which I think is pretty representative of the material which leads many people to conclude that some ki…

I have a 17 year old son and from having been a teenager at one point, and my experience with him, I can say, teenagers can be fickle (Image)

I think there is a lot of value in young people especially, serving. But I don't mean serving in military. There are many, many ways people can contribute via volunteering that doesn't include the mi…

I am not going to go deeply into the background history of the political situation here in Thailand, but at the moment it is the most turbulent it has been since 4 years ago when around 90 people wer…