Author: jianxie

H: There is this guru in town (Geshe Michael Roach) who claim to use Buddhism to teach people how to…

A friend forwarded to me an email from a Buddhist teacher, who advocated that evangelists should simply be ignored. I replied…

The Self-Defeating God (How God Proves He Does Not Exist By Not Proving He Does Exist) Reasoning: It is the…

There are too many ungrounded assumptions in Pascal’s Wager. Firstly, one must believe there is a God [who must be believed…

‘The Lord [God] was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable…

At an inter-religious forum, after representatives of several religions introduced the gise of their ideology, someone in the audience hinted…

I came across two strange sentiments about eating animals: 1. ‘As long as the Buddha is in my heart, eating…

Question: Would you say that reciting Om Mani Padme Hung is similar to the practice of metta meditation in that it…

A Tit for a Tat (339) Tit: I crapped out all the dairy cookies I accidentally ate yesterday. Tat: Lactose…

I figured that it is alright to no longer subscribe to any local papers, since they are all government controlled….

Some friends comment that some relics (sairira) of great Buddhist masters look quite ordinary, in the sense that they can’t even…

What a joke! What good is a green building if it serves the least green food – animal produce? What…

A friend sent by the Chinese text below, written by a Dharma teacher, for comments. My comments are in English,…

Text visual on the video wall of Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe concert in Barcelona during the song ‘Precious’:…

From http://boingboing.net/2011/08/31/rob-interviewed-in-the-economist.html : Mr Anil Dash called on sites with communities and forums actively to police themselves, rather than allow…

Occasionally, I write politely and detailedly to other Buddhist teachers and non-Buddhist authors to ask or comment on certain issues,…

It is sometimes amusing to see people coming up with analogies to fit their ideas, as if a perfect fit…

There was talk about how a mass-murderer-terrorist might plead insanity and how the plea is not likely to be accepted….

The moment a natural or man-made disaster affects sentient lives, it is also a karmic disaster for those very sentient…

In the first ‘Gantz’ movie (see trailer below at around 46 seconds), a Vajrakumara (Dharma Protector guardian diety), a thousand…