Coming to grips with Buddhist ethics
How does one refrain from wrong speech and
action? First of all, what is right speech and wrong speech? Are
they not relative to time, place and person? Is there such a thing
as absolute right and absolute wrong? We can go on and on without
coming to a definite conclusion, and by so doing, we veer away from
ourselves - that is, from our minds.
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Vignettes
Why no romance in marriage
Volumes have been written on romance. There are
romantic novels, short stories and poems. Most of them glorify
romance before or outside marriage. Only a very few poets, novelists
and short story writers have attempted to write on romance in
marriage. This raises the inevitable question whether romance ends
with marriage or grows outside it.
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Thorns on the Side
A dastardly act
Last week’s horrendous bomb attack at the Boston
Marathon again highlighted the brutality of terrorism. While there
is still no clear idea as to who did it and why, one thing is
crystal clear - it is a dastardly act of terrorism. There are those
who classify acts of terrorism as domestic and international,
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