Jesus Christ Is The Greatest Hero, According To The Talmud

The greatest hero is he who turns his worst enemy into a friend.

Babylonian Talmud, Tract Aboth, Fourth Chapter,
Tosephtha: Aboth of Rabbi Nathan

Three Years Ago Today

Practical Fasting Advice

( You may wish to turn up the volume on your computer ).

What to do when a well-meaning non-Orthodox invites you to share a meal together ?

Sea Foods That Are Forbidden During Fasting

Snails & Oysters.

The Forbidden Fruit(s)

Pious Orthodox Christians are to abstain from tasting the sweetness of the following fruits during fasting periods :

Peaches, Bananas & Water-Melons.

Three Weeks Of Fasting Starting Tomorrow

Eighteen Days of Sexual & Culinary Starvation Abstinence

Apostle Before The Apostles: How The Buddha Has Been Preparing The World For Christ

The mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief. They are all mind-wrought.

Even if all sacred Buddhist texts were to perish, and all monasteries turn to ashes, and all the Buddha's teachings be forgotten, and all Buddhists wiped out in an apocalyptic cataclysm from the face of the Earth, and the very memory of the Buddha himself lost in the mist of time, and all that were to remain would be only these two verses, the first two of the Dhammapada, it would suffice for the entire faith to be rebuild from scratch, as a gigantic Sequoia tree rising from just one small seed.

We often think, albeit mistakenly, that it is irresistible outside forces that are actually responsible for us feeling, behaving, or reacting one way or the other, when -in fact- the sheer falsity and shaky logical foundation of this fundamentally-flawed view are sometimes so easily dispelled merely by taking a simple look at reality itself: how many times haven't we seen one heart offering someone forgiveness for a certain fault, while another heart was turning with bitterness towards someone else for making the very same mistake? Some people bite even the hand that feeds them, repaying kindness with ingratitude, while others are thankful even to their worst enemies for turning them into the persons that they have now become, by overcoming all the hurdles and obstacles that have been set in their path over the course of time by the hatred and enmity of their foes. Some men being enslaved by the beauty of a woman, while others remain indifferent to her charms. Some leaders honorably resigning at the slightest sight of error, others still desperately holding on to their chairs even after committing dozens of catastrophic and unpardonable mistakes. Some seeing in failure a reason to get up and keep fighting (or at least viewing it as an indispensable and invaluable part of the learning process), while others are completely crushed at the first sign of defeat, crying out in surrender, and giving up all hope once and for all.

The Spirit Of Unity: An Ecumenical Pentecost Article

I think that those who sow discord among Christians are wrong, and that John Paul the Second was right when he called Orthodoxy and Catholicism the two lungs of Europe... For instance, some people think -wrongly, I might add- that the fact that Catholics and Orthodox attach opposite colors to the Feast of Pentecost ( red in the West, and green in the Christian East ) would also imply a polarity of opposition between the two faiths: when nothing, in fact, could be further away from the truth ! Far from being polar opposites, the two faiths harmoniously complete and complement each other in perfect unity: the green grass and willow-branches that fill the floor of Orthodox churches on the day of Pentecost are the much-needed fuel that is necessary for the Catholic Inquisition to kindle the red flames of fire underneath the scaffold meant for Protestants and other heretics...