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My favourite quotes from the Avatamsaka Sutra. Stay tuned…

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Damn yo!

It’s been a while since I posted hey?! Been busy with my own stuff for a while. Not to mention assessment cropping up and forcing us college students to do what we came to university to do – procrastinate.
On a side note, I have obtained Chang’s acclaimed book The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy [...]

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Universal Salvation

What is a way to dedicate oneself to universal salvation? Read the sacred text from an existentialist perspective.
To me, a literalist way of reading sacred texts is the quickest road to running into unnecessary problems. I have stated many times that it is a position that I do not favour because it often leads to [...]

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Observing the spiritual battlegrounds

As a mystical Buddhist, I draw my attention across the world, by that I mean I spread my wings of curiosity universally. The philosophy of the interconnectedness of all sentients and all universes in Mahayana Buddhism aids me in my attempt to look at things more objectively in the most crucial factors of contingent existence, [...]

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Mistakes when setting out on the spiritual path

Everyone makes mistakes. Some mistakes are more serious than others. Some mistakes are made more often than others. Here is an essay with a comprehensive list of mistakes, from beginner to advanced, to watch out for when on the spiritual path. Given that most mystical traditions (Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim) have their origins in the [...]

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In the tradition of Sun Zi: Philosophy of War

As old and ancient as philosophy, although perhaps not as venerable, war has been a constant preoccupation of humankind. In some ways I see philosophy as a benevolent grandpa sitting on a rocking chair, relating his life stories to the children of the modern world. In contrast, war is like a cranky, bearded street bum [...]

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A tribute to my favourite cartoon character

Muroga Hyouma is my favourite cartoon character ever. Close runners-up are Batman and Optimus Prime.
Hyouma is a major character from award-winning manga Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, which is about the star-crossed love between the handsome leader of the Koga ninja clan, Gennosuke, and the beautiful leader of the Iga clan, Oboro. The Koga and [...]

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Buddhist monk slain as Sri Lanka killings grind on

Reuters, 13 May 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Buddhist monk near a border separating government from Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s northeast on Sunday, a day after troops killed five rebels in separate incidents, the military said.
Military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said it was too early to say who [...]

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More on Nietzsche

The more I read up on this guy, the more I am interested in his philosophy. It does not ring any spiritual bells with me, but it certainly rings a LOT of aesthetic bells – which I suppose is what he intended in the first place. I am reading an essay by Jessica Lewis Luck [...]

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Meditation of the Day

It doesn’t matter if you are not a big fan of meditation, or if you don’t prefer to mediate on sacred words, or what I personally call, the “sacredness of semantics”. Why can words have special meaning or be empowering or devastating? Because they convey meaning of some sort. The more cosmic the meaning, [...]

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