Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
A small incident – a larger truth
A small incident reveals a larger truth. Last month, a family connection, a 17 year-old, started her first job in the local Morrisons Supermarket, a major supermarket chain, in Totnes, Devon, UK. She worked in the cafeteria.
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Don’t bite on the GM apple
We have been enduring more than 20 years of promises from scientists in the food industry that genetically modified GM) crops will produce the Garden of Eden.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
The erosion of freedom
I feel more concern for our freedom every time our political masters proclaim at every opportunity that we must protect our freedom. The government undermines our civil liberties.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
The Buddha on Making Money
I am putting together brief reviews for a future Dharma e-News of my 10 favourite books that are a commentary on the Buddha’s teachings. As I voluminous reader (a page a minute), I love most of all the Pali Suttas, so superbly translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi. All of the books of the various Buddhist traditions [...]
