A perspective on things

http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/BBsOeLcUARw A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. I like this. Makes me remember just how much of nothing there is within us, that we are not a solid as we are in the habit of thinking. As above so below, or the [...]

Another Meditation Article

In 1985, the meditation team made a video of monks drying cold, wet sheets with body heat. They also documented monks spending a winter night on a rocky ledge 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas. The sleep-out took place in February on the night of the winter full moon when temperatures reached zero degrees F. [...]

Furious Angels – Boondock Video

Furious Angels – Boondock The finest MMA highlight video I have ever seen.Blood, emotion, glory and crushing defeats; it touched me. So much more than the uneducated and ignorant view that ‘it’s just two men fighting’ It may be, and perhaps should be, difficult to accept the notion that a prizefighter’s work merits the same [...]

Meditation Books UK

A bit of an experiment in making a website of books that are relevant to this blog.If you fancy a look at some meditation and chi kung books then have a peek at Meditation Books UK

Publishing the Sutras

Tetsugen, a devotee of Zen in Japan, decided to publish the sutras, which at that time were available only in Chinese. The books were to be printed with wood blocks in an edition of seven thousand copies, a tremendous undertaking. Tetsugen began by traveling and collecting donations for this purpose. A few sympathizers would give [...]