Author: reverendlund

The Buddha taught that we get old, get sick, and die. I’m old. Life is suffering. He said I teach suffering and the end of suffering.To me, it’s the only religion offering salvation in this life. I used to do Tibetan practice and it was powerfully changing my life, especially the Vajrakilya empowerment. Lama Inga […]

Did The FB and Twitter erode grammer and spelling to a third grade level or are people simply becoming more illiterate? I had a linguistics professor who taught us the principals of transformational grammer but said all that mattered was whether one was understood. I disagree. One should obey the rules of their language.

R.D. Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist in the 60’s, was horrified at the thought of a world even stranger than what was presently. Terence McKenna, a fellow fond of psychedelics, developed a theory about novelty in the universe he called Timewave Zero. When we reached maximum novelty the end was upon us. They died significantly before […]

Not as simple as good versus evil, No Country for Old Men explores the problem of free will versus determinism.

The best song in metal. The second part is an invocation.