>First of all, as to the question of where exactly hell and the Buddha exist, one sutra states that hell exists underground, and another sutra says that the Buddha is in the west. Closer examination, however, reveals that both exist in our five-foot body. This must be true because hell is in the heart of…

> How can one be in a bad mood with a sunrise like this. Finally the sky was cleared, just the pink clouds we had been looking for all this time were in the sky, telling us it was going to be a beautiful day and it was,Sun’s coming uplike a big bald headLaurie Anderson…

> This is my friend Dorelies Kraakman who died four years ago of Ovarian Cancer. She was a brilliant feminist lesbian historian. From the internet: ‘Dorelies was born in 1946, studied law and international relations, and later continued with history. She tried to make it to the diplomatic class of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign…

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>It is five minutes before the end of the day and I have not written in my blog.It has been seven days since I started my cure.Purification and I feel so pure. I am just sitting here finishing my novel.Yesterday someone sent me a message on my Dutch log: I have a koan for you:‘Why…

> I have had this poster hanging on my window since 2002. Worldpeace is possible.It was a year before I became a buddhist. This really strikes me. As in SGI we are chanting for Worldpeace. Even before I heard that I was a believer already.Worldpeace is possible

>Last Friday as I filled up my waterbottle in the swimmingpool’s toilet a man sneezed twice.That’s when it happened.I thought of what I read in the paper that when someone sneezes in the tram (a very popular way of transportation here) anyone can be infected. Maybe it was that thought?Maybe I should have never thought…

>It is a grey and wet day.Sad too.It never got light.In Winter sometimes there is not much more than 100 lux and that is not enough.But I have my lamp.10.000 lux.Every morning at breakfast I have my lamp on and every morning when I do my morning gongyo I have it on as well. I…

> I am on my third day. The process of this body that has been carrying me for 52 years, 7 months and 4 days.I am not feeling too great, I can tell you that.Today I read in the newspaper, and when it is in the newspaper, it must be true, that 50% of the…

> As I was wondering:how do writers write dialoguesI walked to my bedroom to take a look at how Paulo Coelho (isn’t he one of the worlds most appreciated writers of today?I have not read his books yetbut one is waiting at my bedside table)lets people talk my cat Midas caught my attention as he…