Hi SattvaPaul

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I think this is one of my better attachments!

Both of my son's are interested in Buddhism. The oldest is 15 and is starting to be able to grasp the more difficult topics, but the 9 year old is also interested and I'm trying to find some good rea…

Come on now. I don't think you're being real. If the cockroach was trapped in a glass bowl and couldn't escape from the fire - would you really have a dilemna in choosing whether to save the baby or …

I find it hard to explain, and of course, I get plenty of comments to the contrary and assurances that this isn't so, but I'm just of the opinion that it takes exactly the same kind of mind-set to sl…

to ask whether the inward and spiritual side of life is existent or non-existent, is to ask a meaningless and therefore an unanswerable question. To ask whether it is real or unreal is to ask a quest…

(if I may whet your appetite with a sample)It is true that he condemned the life of pleasure. But why? Not because those who led it were trying to be happy, but because they were trying to be happy i…

According to Buddhism. a normal person usually views existence as permanent, satisfactory and having an essence. But reality is some thing quite different and is somewhat counterintuitive.

Just take care of your own practice . I doubt you would carry on like this in sangha in front of a teacher.. This is the bane of Buddhist fora. It is why I quit modding elsewhere.. because there…