I was very much the product of the Hippy Movement and was born in 1967 during the ‘Summer of Love’ – my parents were hippies.
Tag: Buddhism
Taiwan Held its First Lesbian Marriage in 2012
Original Chinese Language Article: By Yi Re Qiu (一日囚) (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Taiwan’s Taoyuan County was the venue for the island’s first marriage
Chinese Performance Artist Protests Against Eating Dog Meat
During the evening of the 19.12.2011, the 40 year-old performance artist from Guiyang – Pian Shan Kong – took off his clothes, and whilst wearing only his underwear, he climbed into the metal cage that just 20 minutes before had housed the dog that had been slaughtered. He assumed a posture like that of a dog, together with a frightened attitude, in the hope that he could inspire compassion and loving kindness in the minds of those watching.
Lucid Viewing
How Buddhism is understood by its adherence, depends entirely upon the conditioning of the mind of the individuals concerned. For some, the Buddha is a
Great Master Xu Yun: On Essential Points of Ch’an Training
This delusion has stained the mind for a very long time, and is the basis and driving force of the continuous cycle of life and death. This why it is often not possible for delusion to be wiped-out immediately, and why the Ch’an training requires certain prerequisite (and supportive) practices to
Soviet War Memorial – Metta Meditation (17.5.15)
This invasion took the German military emphasis away from the UK (and the USA) – who had been encouraged by British diplomats (and others) to attack the USSR prior to the start of WWII. The duplicitous Winston Churchill, for instance, was quite happy for Nazi Germany to destroy the Soviet Union – until Britain itself fell prey to the Nazi menace.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 