Notes in Samsara

Paul Robeson singing the praises of Stalin's Soviet Union... HT: M.J. Roesenberg, who has a good point w.r.t. Paul Robeson (who if you...

I'd missed this bit in last week's magazine ... ...Sometimes he was the Zen master Mitsunen (the name meant “Now Mind”), who got up ...

I haven't blogged much about politics here lately; it's better handled on Kos, and when I have something political to say, I usually...

Much of John T. Reed's real estate guru BS guide can be applied elsewhere .

There's no good evidence for any kind of a literal reincarnation. The kids who "remember" their "past lives" were li...

Warner's kinda right and kinda wrong . He's right: Zen brings up lots of repressed crap. He's also right when he says, "It...

I can't tell you that you need a cure if you don't think you're sick. And if you do feel like crap, I don't see much percen...

to whom I might see eye to eye ... “The lay ordination was a welcoming rite for me to commit myself to the path to discover why I suffer or...

You may not know or care who Ray Comfort is...and frankly, your life hasn't been all that different either way, most likely. But this gu...

Pride is not an entirely bad thing... A feeling of pride, when it’s convincing, acts something like an emotional magnet. In a recent study, ...

Well, sort of...in addition to the outing at which I got to roam around Seoul for about 4 hours (at most), I did manage to get to Yasukuni J...

Still on travel, but I didn't want to let this story slip through the cracks: After producing superlatives like the world’s biggest sta...

I used to be concerned about the Free Will versus Determinism issue. I'm not really that concerned anymore. Humans are not exactly cont...

Made it to Seoul, and in a couple of days hopefully will post some nice pictures and all that. Made it to Jogyesa. Korea's not bad, ac...

Here . I'll be in transit to Seoul in the next couple of days. More to come...

I'll credit Douglas Adams, from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy , with the basic line of reasoning: The Babel fish is small, ...

Hakuin in one of his writings mentions the existence of heaven and hell, and asserts their reality. His reasons are not quite logical, and ...

One of the more amusing aspects of something I read about this Ken Wilber guy is that, from what I've read, he regards much of science a...