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What is the spark?: February 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Monday, February 20, 2012. A world of becoming. A wonderful postlude to a most intriguing book which I will be reading over and over carefully, A World of Becoming. Do you know what the world is to me? Others resent either this world or the different account of if it they embrace. What is it to you?
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What is the spark?: August 2011
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Remembering: on not forgetting to forget. Seeking attention and validation from 'readers' who are really imaginary, non-entities, for how could I ever truly know who 'you' are or what you truly think, even if you show up as statistics on my blogs? In this contemporary digit...
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What is the spark?: Of God, monsters, enemies, strangers, or friends?
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Monday, October 1, 2012. Of God, monsters, enemies, strangers, or friends? For Nietzsche, the death of God signalled a profound cultural crisis, the advent of a ‘historical period during. Hence, he says:. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, § 108, p. 167). Was the word for community and hospitality.
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What is the spark?: October 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Tuesday, October 16, 2012. The Autoethnographic Genre and Buddhist Studies: Reflections of a Postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' Convert. Through the idea of religion, the West continuously speaks of itself to itself, even when it speaks of others. For when it does so, it is implicitly in relation to ...
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What is the spark?: December 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Sunday, December 2, 2012. Secularisation of the West (and world) or in-depth Christianisation? The following is a follow up to my post in this discussion thread on a Buddhist forum about the points of agreement between Buddhist and Stoicism. Of how the ancient Greek maxim of the epimeleia heautou.
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What is the spark?: On the right to 'Free Speech' and the freedom of 'Right Speech'
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Thursday, September 27, 2012. On the right to 'Free Speech' and the freedom of 'Right Speech'. It is worth remembering this in light of. The Innocence of Muslims. And the hostile rhetoric against those whom it offends. Free speech means not only the right to offend, but the right to defend. When D...
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What is the spark?: December 2011
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Friday, December 30, 2011. A birthday is hailed. It is not of one’s choosing. Nor does it belong to anyone. Neither decision nor possession. A birthday is recognised. Like clockwork it turns. As if invited from the past. To announce yet again. 8212;arrival or departure? Sunday, December 25, 2011.
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What is the spark?: September 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Thursday, September 27, 2012. On the right to 'Free Speech' and the freedom of 'Right Speech'. It is worth remembering this in light of. The Innocence of Muslims. And the hostile rhetoric against those whom it offends. Free speech means not only the right to offend, but the right to defend. When D...
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What is the spark?: November 2011
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Wednesday, November 30, 2011. What can we learn from nutjob Phil Spector, George Harrison, and John Lennon? A few days ago, I commented on this article: 'Those who support democracy must welcome the rise of political Islam'. This is what I said (you can read it as it appeared in the paper. 3) the view...
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What is the spark?: August 2012
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What is the spark? Buddhism, cultural research, entertainment, and other strange and unexpected things: searching for the allusive, elusive (illusive? Do visit my tumblr blog from time to time: mo(ve)ments. Monday, August 13, 2012. Žižek's Buddhist-like comments about the optimism of Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Anyway, I just stumbled upon the following video where he talks about the optimism of Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Perhaps Žižek is more 'Buddhist' than he cares to admit. :). Wat Pa Kanjanabhi...
