A rational response to an irrational world.

Have courage to use your own reason! That is the motto of enlightenment. Thursday, September 12, 2013. Umpired Umbathy, Pathic and Pathological, Part XIII. I want to discuss difficult subjects and what I need to realize is this cannot be done with ease. At the same time, I cannot allow the discussion of difficult subjects to itself become difficult; I cannot allow the discussion to be by its very nature a barrier to discussion. If so, how? .

Or, Stop Trying to Wiggle Out of the Damn Koan! Very glad Jiryu Mark is still blogging. No Zen in the West.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Live up to Your Ideal. One should not treat a man who has a low ideal, with contempt. He may be a baby-soul who is just crawling on the moral and spiritual path. Your duty is to help him in all possible ways in the realisation or accomplishment of his ideal. You should give him all sorts of encouragement in his sincere endeavour to live up to his own highest ideal. Om Namoh Bhagavathe Sivanandaya! Muralikrishnan R.