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Heh, I see what you're saying. Well, from my understanding, both Taoism and Confucianism share the same original shamanistic roots (the 'tao' is suspected to be a concept that derived much earlier than discernable 'Taoism'). It seems that the reason that 'Confucianism' ended up being named...

In terms of 'usefulness' of psychadelics with things such as meditation, I would say that they do have some, but that far too little is being said by just that. I think it was Timothy Leary (but maybe Watts or Huxley) that very wisely suggested that psychadelics may, in a scientific way of...

I think it's merely that people in this world are typically 'divided' by many things...race, ethnicity, language, politics, money...the list goes on. Dividing people on something like Truth and spirituality seems, admittedly, pretty strange and contrary to basic intuition. Of course...there...

Thinking of karma as though it is something that is attached to individuals is really to consider it outside the spirit of Buddhism. Buddhism, after all, asks us to explore the realm of 'no self'...of there not being an ego or a 'seperate' individual to which things can happen and to which karma...

I took psilocybin mushrooms once, at the time under the impression that they would provide 'an extended weed-high'. Wow...I was wrong. The 'bad trip' that ensued left me terrified as I felt, very inescapably, that I or 'me' did not exist in any definite way for a good five hours. I could even...

Well, the sound of two hands clapping jumps spontaneously from two hands coming together. In a certain way, this is 'something' coming from 'nothing'. Alan Watts once said," I think 'nothing' gets a bad rap these days." Indeed, in our hyperactive culture 'nothing' is certainly looked down upon...

I think Confucianism, although certainly embroiled in the realm of moral or ethical biases, was a religion. In fact, Confucius mentioned the 'Tao' numerous times in his works...sometimes even more so than Chuang-Tzu and Lieh-Tzu. A funny way to look at it is that Confucianism was a type of...