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- John Backman: Why Faith -- And We -- Need Contradictions (Category: Features)
- Philip Goldberg: A New Way Of Being Religious (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? (Category: Features)
- Steve McSwain: What I've Learned From The Spiritual Masters (Category: Features)
Thich Nhat Hanh offers this precept: "Do not accumulate wealth whilst millions are hungry. ... Live simply and share time, energy and material resources with those who are in need." Read more: Nonviolence, Gandhi, Buddhism, Economy, Occupy Wall Street, Buddhism and Occupy Wall Street, Buddhist Compassion, Nonviolent Action, Occupy Buddhism, Religion and Occupy Wall Street, ...
- Wendi L. Adamek: Flashmob Meditators Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
- Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Now More Than Ever We Need Mindfulness (Category: Features)
Established in the 1990s, Thailand's Elephant Nature Park in Chang Mai sets out to help Asian elephants -- and visitors are welcome. Read more: Wendy and Lucky Diamond, Lek Chailert, Thailand, Lucky Diamond, Animal Fair, African Elephant, Animal Rights, Burma, Conservation, Asian Elephant, Wendy Diamond, Thai Elephant Conservation Center, Buddha, Mine Ban Treaty, Chang Mai,...
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- AZIAM Yoga - I Am Lucky (Category: Features)
- Alanna Zabel: AZIAM Yoga - I Am Lucky (Category: Features)
- Derek Rose: Stanford Grad Dies in Cave as World Peace Experiment Stumbles (Category: Features)
Illusion, Nondualism, Zen Buddhism, Religion News
- Wes Nisker: Ancestors Of Awakening (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Why The Buddha Touched The Earth (Category: Features)
Arts, Chinese Caligraphy, New York, Salon Vert, Arts News
- "49 Days": Zhang Huan at Blum and Poe (Category: Features)
- Thai Buddhist Film Festival Seeks To Spark Faith (Category: Features)
, Buddhism, Adoption, Death, Ipad, UK Tech News
- Steve Jobs' Private Spirituality Now An Open Book (Category: Features)
- Lama Surya Das: Right Livelihood And The Zen Of Steve Jobs ... (Category: Features)
- Ravenna Michalsen: Buddhist Songs About Cho And Machik Labdron (Category: Features)
Steve Jobs showed us that real practice is not about being perfect, but manifesting to the best of our abilities the gifts that we are given. Read more: Steve Jobs, Buddhism, Spiritual Practice, Steve Jobs Death, Religion News
- Legend (Category: Business)
- Steve Jobs' Private Spirituality Now An Open Book (Category: Features)
- Change Agent (Category: Business)
- Jobs: business legend (Category: Australia, Queensland)
, Life Expectancy, Buddhism, Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Fifty News
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- Track Santa as he delivers gifts across the world (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Track Santa as he delivers gifts across the world (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
The meditators were no doubt derided as hopelessly naive by Wall Street Olympians. Absorbed by the lightning-fast cyberspace synapses of the global economic body, why would they even bother to look? Read more: Occupy Wallstreet, Meditation, Flashmob, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Meditation, Buddhist Activism, Activism, Buddhism and Activism, Buddhism, #Occupywallstreet,...
- Larry Yang: Now More Than Ever We Need Mindfulness (Category: Features)
- Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life (Category: Features)
, Bible, Caputo, Suffering, Scripture Commentary, Christian Mysticism, God and Suffering, Religion News ...
- Eric Weiner: God, A User's Guide (Category: Features)
- Philip Goldberg: A New Way Of Being Religious (Category: Features)
- Andrew Z. Cohen: Evolutionary Mysticism For Living In An Infinite Universe (Category: Features)
- Joshua Otte: All And Nothing: Tagore And The Caves Of Ellora (Category: Features)
Don't look to external factors for trouble, because you will find it. Instead, learn to be content within your relationship. Learn to be content with what is going on Right Now, not what may be coming up in a few years time. Read more: Relationships, Buddhism, Judaism, Interfaith Relationships, Religious Tolerance, Lodro Rinzler What Would Sid Do, What Would Sid Do, Buddha...
- Lodro Rinzler: The Four Gates Of Speech: Is It Really A Good Idea To Call The Ex? (Category: Features)
- Lodro Rinzler: Buddhist Breakup Advice (Category: Features)
- Lodro Rinzler: Buddhism and Dating: Would Sid Join Match.com? (Category: Features)
- Peter Baksa: Can We Consistently Redirect Conflict to Our Favor? (Category: Features)
Most religion, including Buddhism, offers an escape from reality, rather than a transforming insight about it. But Dharma is not like that. It is about what is true and real. Read more: Siddhartha, Meditation, Thrangu Rinpoche, Shunryu Suzuki, Buddhism, Zen Master Dogen, Zen Meditation, Buddhist Meditation, Suzuki Roshi, Zen Buddhism, Spiritual Awakening, Meditation and Rea...
- Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell: Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
When we make amends, we begin to see the freedom of non-attachment and to see ourselves in more generic terms: as humans, prone to error, but doing our best. Read more: Recovery, Buddhist Meditation, 12 Steps, Mindfulness, Twelve Steps, Mindful Recovery, Buddhism, Ego Attachment, Religion and Recovery, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Buddhism and Recovery, Making Amends, ...
- Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma (Category: Features)
- Darren Littlejohn: Buddha In The Bedroom: Why Meditators Are Better Lovers (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- William Horden: The Inner Compass of Being (Category: Features)
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- Dalai Lama Hosts Massive Peace Festival In Washington, D.C. (Category: Features)
- Blending Buddhism And Psychotherapy At Omega NYC 2010 (Category: Features)
- Blending Buddhism And Psychotherapy At Omega NYC 2010 (Category: Features)
- Blending Buddhism And Psychotherapy At Omega NYC 2010 (Category: Features)
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- HH Dalai Lama To Celebrate 77th Birthday (Category: Features)
- WATCH LIVE: The Dalai Lama Speaks At D.C. 'Kalachakra For World Peace' (Category: Features)
- Brigid Brett: The Dalai Lama Comes to San Diego (Category: Features)
- EXCERPT: The Dalai Lama Moves 'Beyond Religion' (Category: Features)
The world we live in, and the very nature of our mind, push us to stay self-focused and self-protective. We are encouraged to widen our stance in the ... Read more: Buddhism, Zen Difficult and Dangerous, Zen Practice Difficult, Meditation Difficult Dangerous, Zen Meditation, Zen Meditation Practice, Impermanence, Zen Buddhism, Meditation, Zen Practice Dangerous, Stress Redu...
- Colleen Morton Busch: Mouse in the House: What a Rodent Problem Can Reveal (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: 7 Practices That Restored My Buddhist Faith (Category: Features)
Nothing is the positive yet indeterminate impression on the horizon, just before becoming something definite. It is nothing and it is not-nothing. Together with the present, it is the future and it is the past. Read more: Existential-Crisis, Positive-Nihilism, Mind, Hinduism, Upanishads, Ontological Anarchy, Disillusionment, Being-and-Nothingness, Is-That-All-There-Is, Noth...
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Perfecting Patience (Category: Features)
With a rustle of this terribly frailty, the cherry tree on Glebe Pt. Road reopened once again my awareness that there is no demarcation line in this war in which we find ourselves. Everywhere is occupied, everywhere is the front line. Read more: Buddhist Impermanence, Japanese Culture and Cherry Blossoms, Climate Change, IrèNe NéMirovsky, War, Suite FrançAise, Buddhism, Syd...
- High Park cherry blossoms have special significance (Category: Canada, Ontario)
- BJ Gallagher: What Would Buddha Do About A Terrorist Attack? (Category: Features)
- Richard Schiffman: Why We Need To Start Teaching About Religions In School (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Occupy Buddha: Reflections on Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
Khandro was universally respected, loved and revered as one of the greatest practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in recent times, and an inspiration and source of blessings to Buddhist practitioners everywhere. Read more: Religion, Religion News, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
- Claudia Ricci: Tibetan Monks Crisscross The U.S. Making Sand Mandalas (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Mara Looks Just Like Buddha (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
, American-Buddhist, Meditation, Meditation Practice, Happiness, Religion News
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: The Power Of Sorrow (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddha Nature And The Divided Brain (Category: Features)
They destroy it. Why? Because the underlying message of the mandala ceremony is that nothing is permanent. Nothing. All things are in flux, it says, beautiful but ephemeral, moving but temporary, a plateau but not a summit Read more: Mandala, Sand Mandala, Buddhism, Impermanence, Flux, Destroy Mandala, Destroying Mandalas, Making a Mandala, Sand Painting, Creating Mandalas,...
- Claudia Ricci: Tibetan Monks Crisscross The U.S. Making Sand Mandalas (Category: Features)
- Beautiful Buddhist Mandalas From Around The World (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
- Mandala Time-Lapse Video Shows Monks Creating Gorgeous And Elaborate Sand Sculpture (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: The Discovery of Egolessness (Category: Features)
It is increasingly obvious that natural limitations will soon force economic growth to cease. Buddhist teachings emphasize that this does not require a reduction in the quality of life. Read more: Sustainability, Green Living, Buddhism, Peak Oil, Economic Crisis, Green Faith, Eco-Theology, Eco-Buddhism Project, Free Market Capitalism, Economic Reform, Gross National Happine...
- John Stanley: Beyond The Matrix -- A Buddhist Approach (Category: Features)
- Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: The Karmapa: Tibetan Buddhism's Next Great Leader? (Category: Features)
- David Loy: Awakening From The Illusion Of Our Separateness (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: At The Center Of The Buddhist World (Category: Features)
"All living things fear being beaten with clubs. All living things fear being put to death. Putting oneself in the place of the other, let no one kill... Read more: Wendy and Lucky, Animal Fair, Lucky Diamond, Thailand, International Destinations, Asia Travel, Travel, Temple, Animals, Destinations, Wendy Diamond, Thailand Travel, Elephant, Buddha, Cats, Thailand Dogs, Eleph...
- Wendy Diamond: Asian Elephants And Land Mines: A Rescue Mission (Category: Features)
- PHOTOS: A Look At Life Inside A Bhutanese Monastery (Category: Features)
- Thailand Seeks To Ban Buddha Tattoos For Tourists (Category: Features)
- Unbelievable Ark Of The Covenant Discovery Announcement (Category: Features)
Freedom from suffering can be found through realizing that the fundamental nature of our mental experience is ever-changing, interdependent and without any fixed, unchanging self at its core. Read more: Religion and Science, Dalai Lama, Neuroscience and Religion, Neuroscience, Zen Meditation, Brain, Zen Brain, Zen Buddhism, Buddhism and Science, Meditation, Buddhism, Spirit...
- John Stanley: Buddha Nature And The Divided Brain (Category: Features)
- Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future Of Self-Transcendence (Category: Features)
- Rev. Zesho Susan O'Connell: Zen Practice Is Difficult And Dangerous (Category: Features)
I realized over the course of these few but intense days, the Korean Buddhists of the Chogye Order had invited me not only to learn more about Christianity, but also to ask that I help make their teachings better known in the United States. Read more: Christianity, Buddhism, Religious Tolerance, Buddhism Christianity, Jinje Riverside Church, Christianity Buddhism, Master-J...
- John Backman: Why Faith -- And We -- Need Contradictions (Category: Features)
- Jeffrey Small: 5 Insights From The World's Religions (Category: Features)
- Unbelievable Ark Of The Covenant Discovery Announcement (Category: Features)
- Christian Piatt: If You Meet God On The Road, Kill Him (Category: Features)
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- Lewis Richmond: Does Buddhist Meditation Still Work When You're Older? (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment' (Category: Features)
- Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice For Our Busy Lives (Category: Features)
- Steve McSwain: What I've Learned From The Spiritual Masters (Category: Features)
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- Kay Larson: John Cage, Buddhism And The Hymn Of Love (Category: Features)
- Leaving Om: Buddhism's Lost Lamas (Category: Features)
- Ravenna Michalsen: LISTEN: Songs About The Buddha-To-Be (Category: Features)
- Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians (Category: Features)
When it comes to guaranteeing freedom of religion, it matters much less what nations say in their constitutions than what they are prepared to do to enforce those laws. Read more: Islam, Religious Freedom, Christianity, Buddhism, Religious Tolerance, Religious Freedom in America, Religious Understanding, Religious Freedom in France, Freedom of Religion, Protecting Religious...
- Agency That Monitors Religious Freedom Abroad Accused Of Bias (Category: Features)
- Thomas David DuBois: Why Doesn't Asia Have Religion? (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Dharma Is Culture (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Buddha Is Culture (Category: Features)
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- Ben Patrick Johnson: On Anger (Category: Features)
- Ed and Deb Shapiro: What Would The Buddha Say? (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Molly Hahn: Buddha Doodle -- Polish (Category: Features)
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- "49 Days": Zhang Huan at Blum and Poe (Category: Features)
- Andrew Lam: Buddhas In The West: Even Bill Clinton Turns Toward Meditation (Category: Features)
- Unable To Work, Indian Immigrant Women Turn To Spiritual Practices For Comfort (Category: Features)
- Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe: On Perspective (Category: Features)
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