If you've ever had a dream wherein something strange occurred and you
suddenly realized that it was completely impossible and so awakened,
either completely or lucidly within the dream, then you have an idea
of what it's like when you are not asleep but absorbed in the day's
activities to notice everything seems strange and then to suddenly
realize everything, all of existence, being alive and conscious and
aware, is completely and utterly impossible.

The Aryan position of blameless killing vs. murder
Or, against the reductionistic fallacy of modernity that "killing is
wrong". Or further, proper killing is a noble virtue
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As against the soccer-mom mentality so commonly found in the West
and Europe (especially Britain), there are no evil actions, rather
only an evil mind. The often repeated phrase "it is wrong to kill...

The Buddhist term Anatman (Sanskrit), or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective
in sutra used to refer to the nature of phenomena as being devoid of
the Soul, that being the ontological and subjective Self (atman) which
is the "light (dipam), and only refuge" [DN 2.100]. Of the 662
occurrences of the term Anatta in the Nikayas, its usage is restricted
to referring to 22 nouns (forms, feelings, perception, experiences,
consciousness, the eye, eye-consciousness, desires, mentation, mental
formations, ear, nose, tongue, body, lusts, things unreal, etc.), all
phenomenal, as being Selfless (anatta). Contrary to countless many
popular (=profane, or = consensus, from which the truth can 'never be
gathered') books (as Buddhologist C.A.F. Davids has deemed them
'miserable little books') written outside the scope of Buddhist
doctrine, there is no "Doctrine of anatta/anatman" mentioned anywhere
in the sutras, rather anatta is used only to refer to impermanent
things/phenomena as other than the Soul, to be anatta, or Self-less
(an-atta).
Specifically in sutra, anatta is used to describe the temporal
and unreal (metaphysically so) nature of any and all composite,
consubstantial, phenomenal, and temporal things, from the macrocosmic,
to microcosmic, be it matter as pertains the physical body, the cosmos ...

The Buddhist term Anatman (Sanskrit), or Anatta (Pali) is an adjective
in sutra used to refer to the nature of phenomena as being devoid of
the Soul, that being the ontological and subjective Self (atman) which
is the "light (dipam), and only refuge" [DN 2.100]. Of the 662
occurrences of the term Anatta in the Nikayas, its usage is restricted
to referring to 22 nouns (forms, feelings, perception, experiences,
consciousness, the eye, eye-consciousness, desires, mentation, mental
formations, ear, nose, tongue, body, lusts, things unreal, etc.), all
phenomenal, as being Selfless (anatta). Contrary to countless many
popular (=profane, or = consensus, from which the truth can 'never be
gathered') books (as Buddhologist C.A.F. Davids has deemed them
'miserable little books') written outside the scope of Buddhist
doctrine, there is no "Doctrine of anatta/anatman" mentioned anywhere
in the sutras, rather anatta is used only to refer to impermanent
things/phenomena as other than the Soul, to be anatta, or Self-less
(an-atta).
Specifically in sutra, anatta is used to describe the temporal
and unreal (metaphysically so) nature of any and all composite,
consubstantial, phenomenal, and temporal things, from the macrocosmic,
to microcosmic, be it matter as pertains the physical body, the cosmos ...

"The Value of Believing in Free Will: Encouraging a Belief in
Determinism Increases Cheating"

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02045.x

ABSTRACT—Does moral behavior draw on a belief in free will? Two
experiments examined whether inducing participants to believe that human
behavior is predetermined would encourage cheating. In Experiment...

LIMITS OF YOGA

by ashwaneebaba @ 2007-12-26 - 06:36:01
As same as other epics of our/all releigions, there are a lots of
adverse and advance talking in the "Yogshastra". And like all other
releigious books there are...

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:30:59 GMT, Robert Epstein
verizon.net> wrote:

No.

After long consideration, I must insist on my original opinion that
the master is full of bullshit. I have considered Keynes' suggestion
that the koan was chosen by other "accomplished" masters in later time
to show a "point". Now I would like to point out that such point is
also nothing but a bull. Once again, it proves to me with this
undeniable fact why Zen has fallen into a nihilist hell hole today.