Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
–Carl Jung
Human beings are a funny lot. We pride ourselves on our ability to parse stimuli rationally and yet we rarely, if ever, accomplish the task. Take the Internet, for instance. As fascinating as [...]

‘Brethren, if outsiders should speak against me, or against my teaching, or against my disciples, you should not on that account either bear malice, or suffer heart-burning, or feel ill-will. If you, on that account, should be angry and hurt, that would stand in the way of your own self-conquest. If, when others speak against [...]

From the Pat-Yourself-On-The-Back Dept.
Please let me be excruciatingly clear that I am not trying to pat myself on the back with these posts… honestly, I’m just parroting what I’ve learned from others in these videos, so it’s not much of an ego boost at all. It’s terribly encouraging, though, to get such overwhelmingly positive [...]

Something interesting I found today at:
http://www.palikanon.com/english/timetable.htm
THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM 

Chronological Table of Important Events
Prepared by Olcott Gunasekera – Director,
Buddhist Information Centre. 

There are many problems in preparing a
chronological table for a period of 2525 years. The fixing of the actual year of
occurrence of an event is the chief among [...]

I get a lot of good feedback on the “How To Meditate” videos; that’s why we went so far as to make the DVD set… this one stands out, for some reason, though. Thought I’d share it, with the author’s permission:
Hi, let me first start off by saying that I honestly have never [...]

Although this matter has been cleared up within the Thai press, it seems that the article in English has stirred up and agitated Western readers. This has been caused by some misrepresentations of the events of the press conference and the editorial language used in the article. Wat Nong Pah Pong feels that it is [...]

An interesting discussion on the Second Life VR platform:
Let me tell you of the sad reality of Second Life. In case your not familiar with Second Life its a virtual world where über good looking people in tank tops and fishnet stockings run around having virtual sex, virtual lives and virtual Buddhism. In this virtual [...]

Just thought I’d write a little about the progress we’ve made in linking up some of the various available technologies out there to help spread Buddhism to the world. The virtual reality platform has really become a useful tool; at first I thought it was a silly thing, but it’s actually helped to connect [...]

Reposting this, as the link has changed:
I never thought I would create a bit torrent, but in the end it has been a surprisingly pleasant experience. Create a DVD image file, make a corresponding .torrent file, then upload the latter to a public bit torrent site and start “seeding” the former to whoever wants [...]

(08:35:05 PM) Eric Hancock: “hi yes I’d like to cancel my credit card” “why? we have blah blah blah offers” “well I’m becoming a monk”
(08:35:14 PM) Yuttadhammo: haha
(08:35:15 PM) Eric Hancock: “is that a joke?”
(08:35:16 PM) Eric Hancock: lol
(08:35:24 PM) Yuttadhammol: what fun
(08:35:30 PM) Eric Hancock: it is fun
(08:37:47 PM) Eric Hancock: she kepy [...]