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10 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Pema Chodron, Buddhist... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh, Deirdre honey, the Buddha said "save yourself". he didn't say "blame yourself." Of course, everything in the Chain of Dependent Origination is interconnected, but we're not then to blame for the other person's karma, just for our own. Thinking that we could somehow do that is bhavatanha, one of the roots of duhkha.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Wrap: Cameron Clai... · 0 replies · -3 points

You know what, John? Screw you. I'm not a leftist, I just listened to the damn dialogue. You went in with your review already in your head.

14 years ago @ Shambhala SunSpace - Karen Maezen Miller's ... · 3 replies · +1 points

What is this "faith" of which you speak, Karen?

My Pajamas Media piece is one of the ones Ross linked (I'm linked right next to Robert Thurman whoohoo!) and ... I guess i'm puzzled because one of the things that appealed to me about Buddhism when I first caught it, 40-odd years ago, was that it didn't require "faith". You read the Four Great Truths, they make sense. You learn to sit, things get easier. Practice the Precepts, drama cuts down. Watch for it, and karma/vipaka shows up all over the place (in fact, one of my commenters made a lovely example of it.)

So I'm unclear what the "faith" point is about, unless you're simply using it in place of "religion". But it doesn't seem to me dharma need faith; it's just there, to be seen when pointed out.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Joe Klein on 'Avatar':... · 0 replies · +1 points

So: Joe Klein figures that bloodthirsty mercenaries stealing from the natives must be Americans.
You guys see bloodthirsty mercenaries stealing from the natives, and ALSO figure they must be Americans.

And you say this like it was a good thing?

14 years ago @ Shambhala SunSpace - Brit Hume-and-Buddhism... · 0 replies · +1 points

Of course not, silly person. But then you wouldn't have been urging him to convert, would you?

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Easterbrook: 'Avatar' ... · 5 replies · 0 points

At the beginning of the movie, as Jake is rolling across the tarmac on Pandora, the voiceover says something very close to "but these were real Marines, just hired guns, here to make big money."

Somehow that, the Colonel saying he "used to be" 1MEF, the lack of military insignias, the way these folks are referring to the Corporation, and so on never quite connects for a lot of people primed to go in and see it as Evil Lefties.

As far as the US Military never committing atrocities against indigenous populations, well, I'm a Choctaw with Cherokee blood as well. Tell it to my ancestors.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Secularism’s Drones ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Which is, of course, why "refrain from sexual misconduct" is one of the Precepts.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Secularism’s Drones ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm pretty happy with Singapore in general. Mostly actually pretty libertarian in important ways, pretty, good food. Little tough on chewing gum.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Secularism’s Drones ... · 3 replies · +5 points

Somehow I just knew that was going to be too subtle.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Secularism’s Drones ... · 9 replies · -1 points

Look, obviously Brit would be a far better, calmer, more compassionate, more peaceful person if he just converted to Buddhism. Christianity just doesn't offer the sort of calm equanimity and detached loving-kindness that Buddhists have.

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