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Book facts: The Healer and The Drug Pusher by Daya Dissanayake. Reviewed by Dr. Lakshmi de Silva.

Mystery and controversy regarding [...]

Hypocrisy is the last thing we wuld have to associate with the Word of the Buddha.
There is an appeal by leading Buddhist clergy that all publications about Buddhism should be monitored and censored. They claim there are publications that harm Buddhism, that endanger a religion that has survived for over 2500 years. There may have [...]

First Chapter
THE CASTAWAY
Kita’s eyes followed the slow, majestic glide of a sea gull. All around him was the dark blue sea, calm, silent and almost motionless. The sky above was a lighter shade of blue. An occasional white cloud would drift by, breaking the monotony of the world around him.
He was a tall dark skinned [...]

In Sri Lanka we celebrate the New Year on April 14th, when the sun moves from the House of Pisces to Aries, or Niryana Mesha Sankranti.
The irony is that the Sinhala people probably borrowed this day as their own New Year from the Tamils of South India. Today the Sinhala community ‘celebrate’ the New Year, [...]

Chris Harman quotes from M. Sahlin, that the pre-historic hunter-gatherers were the ‘Original affluent society’
It had taken man 2500 years to come back to the truth stated by the Buddha in the Agganna Sutta of the Digha Nikaya.
It was man’s greed which led to inequality and suffering, it will continue to cause suffering, until we [...]

“Understand something, boy. You are not going to college to get educated. You are going there to get trained. They will train you to want what you don’t need. They will train you to manipulate words so they won;t mean anything anymore. They will train you to forget what it is that you already know. [...]

The upside of the downturn.
We are heading for an upturn in the well being and good health of Mother Earth, which means the well being of all living things. We can expect cleaner air to breath, purer water to drink healthier food to eat and altogether a safer world to live in.
Al Gore would have [...]

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=42223
may be this happened for the good of all south asian countries, even though 6 policemen had to sacrifice their lives for it and our cricketers were wounded. just imagine the number of man-hours saved and the resultant productivity. the amount of power we save, at the venue and on billions of TV sets. and [...]

THE PLUS SIDE OF THE LAHORE ATTACK
We have read and seen so many reports and comments about the negative side of the 3/3 attack in Lahore on our cricketers. We have seen the unfortunate side, the death of 6 policemen who were only performing their duty and the injuries to our cricketers. We have seen [...]

all through the ages people have been fighting against religious conversion, ethical or unethical, while others have continued to attempt to convert.
i do nto understand how a person calling himself a Buddhist, that is following the Buddha’s teachings, could prevent another person from accepting a faith in which he wants to believe.
if a Buddhist believes [...]