You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away..

Morality is a personal matter..

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no conc….

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now..

It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star ….

You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a ….

For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been….

Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex it….

Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu….

If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is di….

I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune o….

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end..

I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood di….

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly ad….

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop..

I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. A….

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave wh….

I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's going on. They've been e….

There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience wh….

The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer an….

As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so ….