Equilibrium is...dis-Equilibrium

Ken Norton's pop quiz, Which mosque opponent said it. I was hoping they were all Sarah Palin's, but apparently not!

via sippey.com

"It is not acceptable to have a religion where the alternative to faith is punishment - that's how you train dogs, not develop people."

- Deng Ming-Dao

Traveler to the undiscovere'd country - Roger Ebert's Journal

"As to the larger question of whether God exists, I would agree with Hitchens that we can't rule out the possibility of some indefinable first mover, although I'm sure he doesn't mean mover as a being but as a force. To hope we can learn how the universe came about is admirable; one might as well call that hope by any name. Whatever one calls it, it's by definition outside the reach not only of our knowledge, but of knowledge itself."

Traveler to the undiscovere'd country - Roger Ebert's Journal

Dalai Lama inaugurates South Asia's biggest Buddhist monastery in Orissa

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday, inaugurated a Buddhist monastery in Orissa's Gajapati district. The five-storeyed Buddhist monastery, Padma Sambhav Mahavira, said to be one of the biggest monasteries in this part of the country, was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama at Jirang in the presence of a large number of followers. The 75-foot-high monastery is built over a 10 acre plot and houses a 21-foot-high Buddha idol.

And, today around 10:50 AM the Dalai Lama reached at Hotel Swosti Premium of Bhubaneswar to attend a meeting organized by Utkal University of Culture in association with HRAO and IATO where he was greeted by Gajapati Maharaj Shri Divyasingha Deb.