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Digital ahimsa: Hinduism in the world of video games

Friday, March 26, 2010

Over this past week of spring break here at Harvard, I reconnected with an old hobby — playing video games. I purchased a game called Bioshock from the local electronics store, having heard that it is based on Atlas Shrugged, an astounding novel that I enjoyed.
The premise, like many games today, is that you get [...]

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Is Vegetarianism Flawed?

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Eating food for survival and Ahimsa pose a deep conflict that has not yet been resolved, and which needs to be resolved. “Harm,” “unnecessary killing,” and “number of senses” are fundamentally imperfect moral measurements. They can never be quantified perfectly. However, there do exist perfect moral measurements for eating. One of them is this principle of “symbiosism” that I introduce in this article: Make sure that the living organism does not die! (And make sure you are treat it well while it is alive, to foster a respectful and symbiotic relationship with the organism). This principle can be adopted very quickly by making small, but nonetheless morally significant, changes to vegetarian and vegan diets.

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Ahimsa and Martial Arts

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

When I first began thinking about it, I saw a contradiction between the Hindu concept of ahimsa, or non-violence, and martial arts, which are fighting arts.  The question I struggled with was if the idea of non-violence could be reconciled with fighting techniques.  At first, especially when I was thinking about techniques that had the [...]

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