The place of ‘respect and reverence’ in secular buddhism
With deep respect…….we reverence the Buddha. What do these words conjure up for you? I’m a self-styled and possibly temporary secular buddhist, more a ‘bird of passage’ than a member of the flock, more...
View ArticleMembership and Buddhist Ethics – Peter Goble
Prospective members are asked to remember ‘Buddhist ethics’ about speech when posting or commenting, and kindliness and no-harm seem to get an ethical ‘thumbs-up’, whereas frivolous speech seems to get...
View ArticleWoolwich and its aftermath
I sometimes wish I had more facility in expressing direct, succinct and acceptable feelings about events such as the recent attempted public decapitation of a young man on a suburban street, and his...
View ArticleAnimal Realm – Chester 1993-2013
I’ve just been sitting by the newly-dug grave prepared for the remains of our family cat, Chester, who died in my son’s arms a couple of days ago. Chester’s thin stiff corpse has lain in the shed,...
View ArticleA Human Right to hope?
The Daily Mail is on good tub-thumping form about the European Court’s ruling on the human rights of criminals convicted of ‘grotesquely wicked’ deeds to a review of their “whole life” sentences, so...
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