"'I am going to get rid of everything, including mosquitoes, that bothers me, anywhere in the world, and then I will be a very happy, content person.' We're laughing, but it's what we all do." SLYT: A wry two-minute teaching about avoiding pain by Buddhist nun
Pema Chodron, based on
these writings of the 8th century scholar
Shantideva. For those who don't like video, here's a
transcript (scroll down.) For those who
really like video, here's
55 minutes of Chodron with Bill Moyers. (This too has
a partial transcript.)
posted by escabeche
on Jan 11, 2010 -
81 comments
Imagine if you were the only person on earth; if no one else could understand you except yourself. No matter how hard you tried, you could never make contact with the outside world, not for long at least. This is the life of a
Schizophrenic.
Here, in a simulation created to understand what a typical trip to the pharmacy is for a patient suffering from Schizophrenia [
previously], you will experience for a few minutes what life is all about for people afflicted with this disease.
(via) [more inside]
posted by hadjiboy
on Sep 11, 2008 -
53 comments
Traveling a lot this weekend? Long drive, plane or train ride? You can use that transit time to listen to the Dalai Lama talk for more than four hours with neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars on the topic of craving, suffering and choice.
Part one.
Part two.
[iTunes links] If you're stuck at home, you can watch the
video. The video link has the full list of participants.
posted by Kattullus
on Nov 21, 2007 -
11 comments
Susan Sontag's last book,
Regarding the Pain of Others, received
some praise when it was released, but it was overshadowed by
her death and by
her NYTimes article with a similar name but a different message. Yet
Luc Sante and Jim Lewis
debated it, the Observer
panned it, and everyone ignored its message: "[P]hotographs of the victims of war are themselves a species of rhetoric. They reiterate. They simplify. They agitate. They create the illusion of consensus.... No one after a certain age has the right to this kind of innocence, of superficiality, to this degree of ignorance, or amnesia."
posted by anotherpanacea
on Jul 4, 2007 -
37 comments
Sad -- such a sweet-looking kid, the smile on the face of a future suicide.
Sad -- "If she only knew then how things would turn out…"
Sad -- "I chose to kill her."
Sad -- "You could see her personality break through the coma." Life is
dukkha, said the Buddha -- a Pali term that means something like "suffering" or "the incapability of satisfaction." (Or as Mick Jagger put it, "I can't get no...")
Here's the tangible evidence.
posted by digaman
on May 3, 2006 -
39 comments
