I was just looking again at Alan Watts Theater, which is a series of records by Alan Watts that were animated by the guys who make South Park. They are really amazing (calming, spiritual) videos.
September 4, 2009
December 8, 2008
Facebook karma
How awesome is it that the Facebook application “Send Good Karma” lets you
- lets you “accrue karma points” and spend these points
- send “Enlightenment” to someone
- send “Wisdom” to someone (is this a back-hand way of saying “you need wisdom!”)
That said I have a bunch of karma points, and own “wisdom” as well as “infinite wisdom“!! Send me karma! 
October 19, 2003
Coconut Monk
In Professor Balaban‘s class, we talked about the Coconut Monk, a monk who sat in a tree for a very long time and eventually took a vow of silence and started a community on an island. Here are some links to sites mentioning the monk.
September 16, 2003
The Dalai Lama is funny!
The Dalai Lama talks to engineers.
the Dalai Lama said, “Cosmology, neurobiology, physics, psychology — these are the things that Buddhist scholars really need to study.”
But before the audience could nod in agreement, he added, “In order to refute them!”
September 15, 2003
Christian Science fair
From the Christian Science fair winners:
1st Place: “Life Doesn’t Come From Non-Life”
Patricia Lewis (grade
did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life – carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) – into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.