My name's Justin, and I'm a Buddhist. I take bits from Hindu, and Taoist philosophy as well though. I blog about religion, politics, philosophy, and whatever else I feel like blogging about. I've grown a lot over the years, but I'm still far from where I want to be. If you have any questions then ask away! Don't be shy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
(Source: tiredmomentsintopleasure)
Har Har Mahadev!
As much as I hate to admit it.
No one really has any rights that they are entitled to.
Rights are just an invention, a concept, a way to keep order and put one group of things above another group.
All we did was make rights up like the idea of Santa.
Even if we did have rights then where they come from?
There is no real answer.
It’s a very cute idea, but in reality they’re just privileges to be taken away at a snap of a finger.
When the body is worn out and the brain is tired, the whole organism welcomes death. But it is difficult to understand how death can be welcome when you are young and strong, so that you come to regard it as a dread and terrible event. For the brain, in its immaterial way, looks into the future and conceives it a good to go on and on and on forever—not realizing that its own material would at last find the process intolerably tiresome. Not taking this into account, the brain fails to see that, being itself material and subject to change, its desires will change, and a time will come when death will be good. On a bright morning, after a good night’s rest, you do not want to go to sleep. But after a hard day’s work the sensation of dropping into unconsciousness is extraordinarily pleasant.
Alan Watts (via steve-kim)
The Awakened Life: God Is Dead
I just began reading The Power Of Now by Ekhart Tolle, something he said about God is what I’ve been feeling for quite some time. “God is dead.” This statement was made by Nitzsche, I find it to be extremely relevant. The Christian God, Muslim God, Hindu God, My God and your God and Tom, Dick and…
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus
