Is the Internet. I remember, a day, when our college first got a connection to the internet. It was a 9600 baud connection shared by all students and staff to the net. Do you even know know what a 9600 baud connection is? By today’s standards it would take a single [...]
Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~ John Muir ~
Better than a hundred years lived in ignorance,
without contemplation,
is one single day of life
lived in wisdom and in deep contemplation.
~ Dhammapada ~
What is the difference between pain and suffering?
Pain is when you hurt, it’s the physical sensation. Suffering is when you hate the pain.
Love is a natural kind of meditation.
And meditation is a supernatural kind of love.
~ Chandra ~
When we use time as a means of acquiring a quality, a virtue or a state of being, we are merely postponing or avoiding what is; and I think it is important to understand this point.
~ J. Krishnamurti ~
If the Big Bang was the start of the universe, if that event created all that exists in this vast cosmos and what we have and experience today, what was before that event? What was before that event that caused that Big Bang to occur? Something must have triggered it. Some cause must have lead [...]
In order to live, man must believe in that for which he lives.
~ Huston Smith ~
Why do people want to live longer? Would you want to live longer? Would you want to live longer so you can indulge in the finer things that life has to offer, or so you can help others find happiness and help them diffuse their suffering?
Do you want to live longer for you? Or for [...]
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
~ Buddha ~