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Month: November, 2007

More E-sangha Thought Control

Zen teacher Jundo Cohen has just mentioned on his blog and videocast that he has been banned from E-angha. (E-sangha is a well known (or notorious) Buddhist web forum that I’ve blogged about before…)

Why did Jundo Sensei get banned from E-sangha? Well, he stated in this thread concerning the beliefs of:
“the vast majority of [...]

The Destruction of the American Dream

I’ve been reading “The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America” during the last few evenings and it got me thinking a bit.
One of the basic arguments of the book is that intelligent and educated people are selling out to survive in America. They are forced to make the Devil’s choice between living [...]