Amartya Sen explores “The Idea of Justice”

This post is inspired  (and in a way I am inspired to write again on KarmaDude) by an interview I heard of the revered Dr. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate and economist. As articulate and lucid as he is in his conversation and as verbosely profound he is in his writing, Dr Sen never fails to instill a sense of ponderous thought and an almost sub-consciously Socratic experimentation on topics we otherwise hardly think about. One such topic is the idea of what is “just” around us.

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Zen Stories

Open your mind, change your thought, with these zen stories from Renegade Zen:

Tea Master, Transience, Falling flowers, Maybe, Fleeing the tiger, Empty the cup, Gutei’s finger, Knowing fish, Steal the moon, Nature’s Beauty.

By moving yourself outside of what you would call normal or rational, you can see the world and yourself from a new perspective, thereby acheiving satori, or enlightenment, in the process.
– Renegade Zen

Sudoku Challenge

I am no Sudoku expert, but I thought it would be fun to have a little Sudoku Challenge. Play the Easy Level for Sunday March 12th, 2006, and post your time.

Rules:

1. You can start over as many times as you want.
2. Make sure hints are off.
3. Use pause only if you are not looking at the screen.
4. Post your time only for the easy level.

Play Now [Click on Play More Games, to get to the Sunday Game]

Hope is a good thing

This article can also be read at thelittleendian.com.

Hope is a good thing–maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.–Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

Just finished watching The Shawshank Redemption, for perhaps the 4th or 5th time. What struck me this time? Stephen King can really invent good and evil at the same time. More importantly however, what stayed with me was the quote about Hope.

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