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	Buddhist Eco-Practice - Environmental good practice based on Buddhist tradition, prepared by members of the FWBO - Friends of the Western Buddhist Order.
	London: Fo Guang Shan Temple - Member of the International Buddhist Progress Society. The temple was established in 1992 by its parent monastery, the Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Taiwan.
	UK On-Line Buddhism - Links to sites of Buddhist monasteries, viharas, Meditation centres, courses and classes, organisations, groups, publications and personal homepages.
	Tibet Foundation - London based organisation disseminating the works of the Dalai Lama, promoting the understanding of Tibetan Buddhism and culture, and helping in the provision of education and healthcare for Tibetans in exile.

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Buddhism "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Buddhism Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Buddhism Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Buddhism Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Buddhism "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowf If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Buddhism He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Buddhism "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Buddhism Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Buddhism The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Buddhism "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Buddhism I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Buddhism For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Buddhism Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Buddhism Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Buddhism In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Buddhism "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Buddhism I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Buddhism My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Buddhism Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Buddhism There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Buddhism The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Buddhism Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |