Friday, January 21, 2011

Prague 2011



This is how I see Prague - must be different in your eyes and memories... What a beautiful city with mysterious power in mediaeval times... however, not that much to see inside and beyond these buildings ...

Saturday, January 1, 2011

2011 Has Come to us...

For a happier New Year, we should listen to the core messages of all these great religions, above all the Confucian golden rule that we should never do to others what we would not like to be done to us. What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but – to borrow again from Confucius – how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger and the oppressed.

Those of us who think that science and religion dwell in different domains, and who recall that Socrates argued that science did not teach you about morality or meaning, find that our case is undermined by the literalists and fundamentalists in every religion.

A Good Year for God, by Lord Chris Patten 23 Dec 2010