Cogitations

By: David Edwards What lies at the heart of man? Anything? Nothing? Nothing much? Many of us believe that the human heart is a wasteland, a kind of abyss into which we might fall. In →

By: David Edwards The Power Of Pain In his book, The Art Of Seduction, Robert Greene outlines a strategy for conquering romantic “targets”: “The greatest mistake in seduction is being too nice. At first, perhaps, →

By: David Edwards and Matthew Bain On 2nd December 2007 Media Lens were presented with the Gandhi International Peace Award by Denis Halliday, former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq and himself a recipient of the →

By: David Cromwell Introduction One of the major events of the twentieth century, with reverberations that reach today, is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. Before the bomb was used, the →

By: David Edwards A New Set Of Wants In Part 1 of this Cogitation, I suggested that we are often plagued by uncontrolled thoughts, and asked if it might be possible to train our minds →

By: David Edwards Laughing At The New Generation I am fascinated by the differences that separate peoples and cultures. If human beings are the animal for which life is a problem requiring an answer – →

By: David Edwards “Our complex global economy is built upon millions of small, private acts of psychological surrender, the willingness of people to acquiesce in playing their assigned parts as cogs in the great social →

The Hidden Power Of Compassion, Generosity And Self-Restraint By: David Edwards The Fire Of Discontent The 4th century poet Aryasura described nothing less than a revolution in human understanding when he wrote: “The only beauty →

By: Matthew Bain Media Lens is a UK media watch service which has just published a new book ‘Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media’. In this interview Media Lens discuss with computer →

By David Edwards Pain Is Pain In his remarkable eighth century treatise, The Way of the Bodhisattva, originally delivered as a lecture (some of it, we are told, after he had vanished from the hall!) →