" When we take a sip of Brunello, savour a piece of chocolate, take a shower, go shopping for a suede shirt or silk underwear, make love or hit our thumb with a hammer, Enlightenment is there.

Not according to Ajahn Buddhadasa... (Image)

Not really, just take a practical approach and try to be helpful to your family but at the same time be very hygienic, keep your distance and just have common sense. Meditation is great for a variety…

Not a chance. No need to worry. Sentience is not a mechanical construction. The whole idea is hysterically daft. Even if we could build a sentient machine we'd have no way to establish that it is sen…

Attachment in Buddhist terms is not identifying something outside of ourselves and then by an act of will struggling against it.

Not really a genre of music I am into, grime, but sometimes when I wake up I play this as it puts me in an energetic mood. Wake 'n' grime

In a few months, I will be turning 28. Somehow, 28 seems so much closer to 30 than 27... and in all honesty, 30 looks like the death of youth at the moment.

Not sure if this qualifies, but here is a true story:

Not all good that we receive is a reward, nor is all bad a punishment.

Not quite. The difference is the "my ".