Posted in All Posts, Insight on 3 July, 2008 | No Comments »
The creative impulse - is it a hindrance or a part of the Path?
 Meditating involves stopping the mind as still as you can. Even insight meditation - the insights into the nature of the mind are designed to lead to letting go of the thoughts and desires. So where does this leave the creative urge? [...]
Posted in All Posts, Insight on 3 June, 2008 | No Comments »
Some people can spend up to 18 years of their life in traffic, a new report from London claims. That is one long traffic jam. How about a simple meditation exercise that will not make you late or get a dangerous driving ticket.
These guys have clearly not been to Bangkok.
Most people in Britain spend five [...]
Posted in All Posts, Insight on 24 May, 2008 | No Comments »
The Historical Perspective
The Figment of Scholarly Reasoning blog a few weeks ago, which looked at some of the most recent feeble minded attempts at ‘debunking’ religion, this time reducing it to a probable outcome of human’s developing imagination, ended with the following proposition/refutation:
There is something called Enlightenment. There is a way of being, and a [...]
Posted in All Posts, Insight, tagged atheist, god delusion, Richard Dawkins on 26 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tommy Cooper was cleaning out his attic, and found an old violin, and a paining. They were a Stradivarius and a Rembrandt.Unfortunately, Stradivarius could not paint, and Rembrandt made rotten violins.
It is also true that people look to their religion for answers to things that are best answered by others. What is the Buddhist advice [...]
