Lives on Earth

Buddhism

  • The Buddhist Body Guard

    We live in the here and now, though usually not deliberately or fully. When we do bring ourselves fully into the present, we may find a truer reality and can leave our illusion of self behind. Or so we’re told.… Continue reading

  • “The Mind Is Mainly Drawn to the Future”

    “The mind is mainly drawn to the future.” So write Martin Seligman and John Tierney in “We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment” in the New York Times on May 21, 2017. The article is based on the book… Continue reading

  • The Clergy Letter Project

    The Clergy Letter Project is a set of letters signed by over 13,000 American clergy supporting the compatibility between science and their own creeds and urging the teaching of evolution in public schools. The Project consists today of four brief,… Continue reading

  • Suffering

    This blog looks at ways in which the history of living things may be relevant to people’s largest questions about life. One of these questions is how to cope with suffering. Modern secularism and traditional religions differ widely in what… Continue reading