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Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating
May 20, 2012 – 11:30 pm | 6 Comments
Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

“Is there an ethical argument in favor of flesh consumption? That is, can a meat-eating human find solid moral ground for her more carnivorous appetites?”

The Liberating Embrace of Uncertainty
May 16, 2012 – 12:47 pm | 5 Comments
The Liberating Embrace of Uncertainty

These lives we live, surrounded by beauty and horror, profound knowledge and pitiful ignorance, are a mystery to us all. To push that truth away with false certainty, falsely derived from either religion or reason, is to miss our most perfect truth.

Buddhism and the Self
May 10, 2012 – 4:52 pm | 28 Comments
Buddhism and the Self

“Many have interpreted anatta to be a metaphysical assertion that there is no self, but I argue that this is mistaken.”

Worshiping Narasingha on the Raga-Marga
May 4, 2012 – 11:04 pm | 5 Comments
Worshiping Narasingha on the Raga-Marga

For Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the right reason to worship Narasinghadeva is as Bhaktivinoda prays, “to beg at the lotus feet of Lord Narasingha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krishna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties.”