Thinking can be dangerous to your health
A number of posts in this blog have mentioned the irony that Laura’s brain cancer first struck in the left…
A number of posts in this blog have mentioned the irony that Laura’s brain cancer first struck in the left…
If you spend too much time on social media, you might get whipsawed between two opposing narratives about Ebola in…
I kicked up a bit of a firestorm this summer when I questioned Jon Kabat-Zinn’s saying: “Pain is inevitable; suffering…
Buddhists call questions that lead towards ending suffering “skillful.” Methods that lead to an end of suffering are “skillful means.” …
When I posted “Pain, sensation, suffering and self” on my Tricycle blog, I introduced it with the question, “When does…
Religions teach us to blame ourselves for our suffering in a number of ways. It is true that part of healing…
“Pain is a sensation, and as such, is impersonal. Pain leads to suffering when it is seen as ‘my’ pain….
The exchange about “pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” included in the last post took place on the Community section of…
The post challenging the saying “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional” gave rise to a lively exchange of comments. The…
Two of the comments on the post Why does Euthyphro hurt? help to clarify my questions about the phrase, “Pain…