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I'm autistic and this passage is disturbing to me: "It upended many of the ... sort of inherited pieces of wisdom that I thought I knew about autism. For example, that people with …

Comprehensive explanation of how fucked up this is, from an autistic person instead of a mental health professional making money off stigmatizing us: http://thesubjectsupposedtokno…

Except that Zen is the school of "sudden enlightenment." Suzuki: "Enlightenment is not some good feeling or some particular state of mind. The state of mind that exists when you si…

Buddhism stresses compassion and identifies desire and the ego as the causes of suffering. Steve Jobs was, you could say, "interpersonally abrasive" and made a fortune by encouragi…

Relevant and worth reading: http://www.livingunderdrones.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/... It's not just that the drone strikes are killing civilians in large numbers, and that th…