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John Lydon was my Elvis 23 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
"Americans are really suspicious of anything cerebral, and Zappa didn't disguise his intelligence well enough. In addition to being a man of wide-ranging talent, one amazing thing that always struck m...
A Moral Universe? 16 Aug 2013 | 12:04 pm
National Geographic (the gun is a toy). Recently I was describing to a friend a rather distressing, life disrupting experience I had. Part of his response was to say that he still believed in "a mora...
The Doors to the Deathless 9 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
Siddhaṃ calligraphy of the Lalitavistara Sūtra version of the verse One of the well known archetypal events in the life story of the Buddha is his meeting with Vedic god Brahmā after his Awakening. ....
Translation Strategies. 19 Jul 2013 | 11:36 am
In June 2012 I had a crack at translating a difficult passage from the Cūḷa-Māluṅkya Sutta (MN 63), and presented some detailed notes in an essay titled Irrelevant Details. I'm in the process of writi...
How is Liberation Possible? 12 Jul 2013 | 01:03 pm
Snake in Water How is liberation possible? This is a frequently asked question and one that has evidently puzzled Buddhists down the ages since there are many different answers to it. How can we who ...
Life is Symbiotic 5 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
Economists, politicians and some philosophers believe that human beings (and or genes) are selfish. That self-interest and competition are the ultimate driving forces of evolution and human behaviour....
Surveillance Society 28 Jun 2013 | 12:53 pm
From Spero News One of the few philosophers I have any time for is Michel Foucault (probably because he's mainly an historian). He is more relevant than ever in the light of revelations by whistle bl...
Cargo Cult Science 21 Jun 2013 | 12:41 pm
image from Suite 101 Cargo Cults In an essay from 2011, Explanation vs Interpretation, I outlined an argument from a book called Rethinking Religion by Thomas Lawson and Robert McCauley. The book is ...
Using the Dhamma to Win Arguments 14 Jun 2013 | 11:00 am
At the risk of gross hypocrisy I'm posting this translation of a text about two wayward bhikkhus who like to win arguments more than anything. I suppose this text makes it clear that this is not new p...
Only Simple Elements 7 Jun 2013 | 11:17 am
Kammassa kārako natthi, vipākassa ca vedako; Suddhadhammā pavattanti, evetaṃ sammadassanaṃ. There is no doer of actions; no one who suffers the results; Simple elements proceeding, this constitutes ...
