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Hello all. Freedomblogger, your voice is refreshing, your faith sounds genuine to me. A couple things to say about Haiti and karma. Collective karma is an interesting idea. To make any sense it seems to me all beings would have to be connected to the same tangled web of karma. From this...

Thanks nativeastral for the link to the halexandria site. It will take a while to sift through. Meister Eckhart's words on the eternal now are quite in tune with the video above. I might start a thread on that topic later. For the moment (whether eternal or fleeting), there is a Jainist text (...

One of the peculiar characteristics about zen is that introspection has its place. It is language that creates illusions. Another introspective koan, featured in a Natsume Soseki novel, goes like this: "What was your face before your parents were born?" Koans are meant to give a sudden...

The Buddhist alternative is much quicker: see all as illusory other than buddhanature. From this perspective there is no self to know. There is only mind, which is empty.

Soren Kierkegaard: "The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is bound to be noticed." The sickness unto death. The same publication begins with this paragraph. "The human...

The change I'd like to see is to have a non governmental organization that could function both on local and global levels that would have an appealing networking site. Both the local centers and the website would be geared towards encouraging people to speak and listen: to discuss what local and...

Sorry about the glitches, and for getting seemingly off topic.

Vimalakirti's silence speaks to everyone. Rather than argue, I'll offer my suggestion of a perspective that illuminates other view points. The Vimalakirti Sutra. When the various bodhisattvas had finished one by one giving their explanations, they asked Manjushri, "How then does the...

Vimalakirti's silence speaks to everyone. Rather than argue, I'll offer my suggestion of a perspective that illuminates other view points. When the various bodhisattvas had finished one by one giving their explanations, they asked Manjushri, "How then does the bodhisattva enter the gate of...

Hi all. Shawn, you make a good point about the need to free ourselves from "us and them" mentalities. Vimalakirti's gate of non-dualism comes to mind. If only everyone could pass through it. While mentioning Vimalakirti, who's sutra recently astounded me, let me also suggest that one way to...

wikipedia: Did God Have a Wife? Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, (Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-2852-3, 2005), is a book by Syro-Palestinian archaeologist and biblical scholar William G. Dever (Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archeology and Anthropology at the...

The problem is that corrupt governments such as the American one have hijacked the concept of democracy and the imaginations of us all. Democracy is discussions such as this. Voting is the least imaginative aspect of democracy. What I'm thinking of in making the globalization of religion...

Hello to both Shawn and Taijasi, I like both of your comments. As for narrowing down which concept of democracy, though it is always best to clearly define one's terms, at this point in the history of democracy what we need is to expand the relevant concepts. For far too long it has been assumed...

Science is often seen as a world view that can replace religious world views. I find this a dangerous perspective. Science is a method. Objectivity and efficiency are it's central values. If used as a guide to how to live and organize culture science could very easily point towards fascism...

The spiritual democracy part of democratic religion would be through uniting people to be spiritually in solidarity with each other. The empowering aspect of globalization is recognizing that we are one people, and united we can have far more power than any state or corrporation. Recognizing...

Globalization and the world wide web are forcing the reconcideration of many notions such as democracy, religion, culture, and nationalism. Economics is the aspect of globalization which receives the most media attention --rightly so, since human suffering is often the result of economic...

Serendipitously, just recently I was thinking that those words sound to me like some of the most genuinely Christ-like words in the New Testament.

Hello to all. I haven't been on-line much lately. I'm glad to see that this thread has been revived.

Dr. Funkenstein's Supergroovalistic-Prosifunkstication Medley: Let's Take It To The Stage/ Take Your Dead Ass Home (Say Som'n Nasty) (LIVE), Parliament.

Dr. Funkenstein Medley: Let's Take It To The Stage/ Take Your Dead Ass Home (Say Som'n Nasty) (LIVE), Parliament.