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, Buddhism, Buddhist Monks, Buddhist Enlightenment, Buddhist Pilgrimage, Siddhartha Gautama, Religion News ...
- Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment' (Category: Features)
- Buddhist Relics Worth Millions Seized In Pakistan (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: Choice And Freedom (Category: Features)
- Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.: Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss The Point Of Buddhism? (Category: Features)
No matter how busy I've been recently, I've found time to take care of my body, via yoga and diet and acupuncture, as well as committing to the practice of sleep. That's right, sleep is a practice. You have to get your head on the pillow just like you get your butt on the cushion or your feet on the yoga mat. Read more: Stress, Meditation, Yoga, Buddhism, Anxiety, Busy, Str...
- Michael Sigman: 10 Tips on Loafing Creatively (Category: Features)
- Kickstart Your YouTube Career With A Bang With These 10 Tips (Category: Breaking News)
- Kickstart Your YouTube Career With A Bang With These 10 Tips (Category: Breaking News)
- Kickstart Your YouTube Career With A Bang With These 10 Tips (Category: Breaking News)
When we feel assailed in whom we are, we each can invoke the strength of the Buddha and the courage of all peoples who have lived through experiences of suffering and oppression. Read more: Gay Voices, Meditation, Lgbt, Buddhism, Religion News
Change, Spirituality, Eco-Buddhism Project, Green Faith, Eco-Buddhism, Religion News
- John Stanley: Buddhism And The End Of Growth (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Compassion And The Shadow (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Why The Buddha Touched The Earth (Category: Features)
- David Loy: A Buddhist Philosophy Of Evolution (Category: Features)
, Books News
- Peter Clothier: Children's Books for Conscious Living (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
- Sri Lanka Author Sarah Malini Perera Arrested For 'Offending Buddhists' (Category: Features)
For me to be able to present a workshop based on early mindfulness teachings is a big thrill. The material at the time was so juicy, and it still is. It's about making everyday life the root of your dharma practice, not just incidental events that happen while you're trying to get enlightened. Read more: Yoga, David Nichtern, Money, Sex, Everyday Living, Shambhala, Meditati...
- Ed and Deb Shapiro: Don't Put Anyone Out Of Your Heart (Category: Features)
- Ethan Nichtern: Being Busy in 2012 -- Two Tricks for Not Getting Overwhelmed (Category: Features)
- Gabrielle Bernstein: WATCH: Let Love Host Your Party (Category: Features)
- Modern Buddhism: Language and Culture in a Shrinking World (Category: Features)
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- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Be Inspired: Live Your Life With Awareness (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Now More Than Ever We Need Mindfulness (Category: Features)
When I ask audiences what they like about being older, people often answer "Gratitude," and then say what they are grateful for: grandchildren, good health, free time, wearing what they want, the chance to travel, giving back to the community. Read more: Generosity, Prozac, Reframing, Aging as a Spiritual Practice, Aging Well, Gratitude, Buddhism, Aging Gracefully, Aging, B...
- Lewis Richmond: Anti-Aging Creams And Potions: A Buddhist View (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Does Buddhist Meditation Still Work When You're Older? (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Adulthood, Elderhood, Buddhahood: The Stages Of A Spiritual Life (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Aging as a Spiritual Practice (Category: Features)
I love Buddhism and I'm all for forgiveness among us flawed humans. But only after unrepentant mass murderers who outstrip every definition of evil Webster's can muster are, to paraphrase President Obama, taken off the field. Read more: Kim Jong Il Mourned, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Saddam Hussein, Karma, Kim Jong Il Dead, Auschwitz, Dharma, Kim Jong Il Mourning, The Fourth...
- Mass outpouring of grief (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- From Dear to Cheer Leader (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- A funereal show (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- North Korea mourns dead leader, son is `Great Successor` (Category: Breaking News)
, Self-Help, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
- Susan Piver: The Power Of Sorrow (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: The Power of Lineage (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: Meditation And The Self-Help Demon (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddha Nature And The Divided Brain (Category: Features)
Dharma Academy of North America scholars attempt to view the Indic religions on their own traditional terms, not just through the methods and categories of Western scholarship. It is now the largest additional symposium at AAR. Read more: Hinduism, Religion, Buddhism, Religious Leaders, Sikhism, American Academy of Religion, Academic Study of Dharmic Religions, Study of Dha...
- How Japan's Religions Confront Tragedy (Category: Features)
- Joshua Stanton: Social Justice As A Unifying Issue For Dharmic Communities (Category: Features)
- Robert Lanza, M.D.: Religion Vs. Science's Answers To The Big Questions (Category: Features)
- Thomas David DuBois: Why Doesn't Asia Have Religion? (Category: Features)
Gautama the Buddha and Buddhism have made excellent contributions towards strengthening the Indian Way, which is based on universal acceptance, particularly in making it dynamic and bringing the common man into its fold. Buddha’s contribution for taking this way in his time, when it was a narrow path, cannot be underestimated.
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- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- 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)
When I see everything, including the social system, as myself, I take actions to reduce suffering. I heal the system as healing myself, not fixing someone else who is to blame for all the problems. Read more: Occupy Faith, Buddhism, Religious Tolerance, Indra's Net, Global Unity, Buddhist Activism, Auschwitz Bearing Witness Retreat, Occupy Wall Street, Interconnected...
- Lewis Richmond: Occupy Buddha: Reflections on Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
- Wendi L. Adamek: Flashmob Meditators Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
, Taoism, Mysticism, God, Sufism, Buddhism, Guide to God, Religion News
- Christian Piatt: If You Meet God On The Road, Kill Him (Category: Features)
- Steve McSwain: The Wheel Of Samsara (Category: Features)
- Andrew Z. Cohen: A Mysterious Compulsion To Evolve (Category: Features)
It was too dark to see your hand in front of your face and in this ocean of black, one holy sound moved through everything. In that moment I knew that we were all and we were nothing. Read more: Tagore Ellora, Tagore and Ellora Caves, India, Hinduism, Tagore and Ellora, Rabindranath Tagore, Tagore Ellora Caves, Poetry, Spirituality, Elloras-Cave, Buddhism, Mysticism, Relig...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- 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)
With TIME magazine hoisting the self-immolations in Tibet as the top most underreported story of 2011, suddenly there is a window of attention on this disturbing trend. Read more: China Tibet Crackdown, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibet Politics, China-Self-Immolations, Tibet, Asia, Buddhism, China, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China Religion, Tibetan Monk Fire, Tibet Self Immola...
- Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: The Karmapa: Tibetan Buddhism's Next Great Leader? (Category: Features)
- Richard Schiffman: In The Internet Age, Tibet Is Still The Hidden Kingdom (Category: Features)
- Stephan Talty: What The Dalai Lama Should Do Now (Category: Features)
- John Halpern: Self Immolations In Tibet, Hunger Strikers In New York (Category: Features)
What I have experienced over time has not always been pleasant, but more and more I am able to be with what is and to use skillful means to make choices that allow me to align with myself and move closer to an unshakable freedom. Read more: Transgender Buddhists, Bodhi-Day-2011, Bodhi Day Gratitude, Religion and Sexuality, Bodhi Day Transgender, Buddhism, Lgbt Buddhists, B...
- Attacks on transgender women linked (Category: USA, California)
- For some transgender people, pandemic paves path to transition (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- For some transgender people, pandemic paves path to transition (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- For some transgender people, pandemic paves path to transition (Category: USA, Arkansas)
When we give to others, we give without expectation of reward. We give without attachment to either the gift or the recipient. The practice of giving is thought to be one of the most basic human virtues, a testament to the depth of our humanity. Read more: Holiday Cheer, Gratitude, Happiness, Giving and Receiving, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Golden Rule, Healthy ...
- Lewis Richmond: Five Spiritual Practices For Aging Well (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: Compassion With Wisdom (Category: Features)
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
, Social Justice, Climate Change, Green Living, Buddhism, Green Faith, Occupy Faith, Religion News ...
- John Stanley: At The Center Of The Buddhist World (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Beyond The Matrix -- A Buddhist Approach (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Compassion And The Shadow (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism And The End Of Growth (Category: Features)
What makes the Tantric Buddhism of Tibet more mysterious than the Buddhist traditions that gave us mindfulness and lovingkindness? This simple question has at least three right answers. Read more: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Meditation, Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Buddhist Meditation, Contemplative Practice, Religious Ecstasy, Zen Buddhism, Ecstatic Buddhism, Ecstatic ...
- Matteo Pistono: Practicing Loving Kindness In The Capital (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Be Inspired: Live Your Life With Awareness (Category: Features)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Practicing Perfection (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
Bodhi Day is a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the Buddha achieved enlightenment, translated as bodhi in Sanskrit or Pali. Bodhi Day i... Read more: Bodhi Day Photos, Bodhi Day 2011, Buddhism, 2011 Body Day, When Is Bodhi Day, Bodhi-Day, Religion News
- Jack W. Cooper: Bodhi Day: A Transgender Buddhist's Note Of Gratitude (Category: Features)
- Jim Luce: Following The Footsteps Of The Buddha Across North East India (Category: Features)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: The Lesson of a Leaf (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: 7 Practices That Restored My Buddhist Faith (Category: Features)
Editor's note: The following is excerpted from "Beyond Religion" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... Read more: Dalai Lama Compassion, Religious-Tolerance, Dalai-Lama, Dalai Lama Secular Ethics, Religious-Books, Video, Secular Ethics, Dalai Lama Beyond Religion, Practicing Compassion, Ethics, Dalai Lama Book, Beyond Relig...
- WATCH: Arianna Huffington Interviews The Dalai Lama (Category: Features)
- Agapi Stassinopoulos: Warm Heartedness: The Key To Inner Peace (Category: Features)
- HH Dalai Lama To Celebrate 77th Birthday (Category: Features)
, Oneness With God, Religion News
- Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life (Category: Features)
- Agapi Stassinopoulos: The Dalai Lama Meets The Spirit Of Aloha (Category: Features)
- Buddhists Buy, Release Over 500 Live Lobsters Back To The Sea (Category: Features)
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
Our Mindfulness practice is always a reminder that in order to change any unhealthy or harmful patterns -- in order to transform any suffering -- we have to first become aware of the patterns themselves. Read more: Social Justice, Emotion, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Social Change, Personal Transformation, Spiritual Practice, Meditation, Occupy Wall Street, Mindfulness Meditatio...
- Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice For Our Busy Lives (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: Choice And Freedom (Category: Features)
- Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Stay Right When You're Wronged (Category: Features)
Travel, Body Scanning, Tsa, Self-Awareness, Terrorism, Racial Profiling, Privacy, Politics News ...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- 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)
Moyers, Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Gautama, Occupy Faith, Buddhism, Slidepollajax, Religion News ...
- Wendi L. Adamek: Flashmob Meditators Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
- Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life (Category: Features)
Up Advice, Breaking Up, Buddhism, Breakups, Religion News
- Ken Solin: See Friends for Who They Are, Now (Category: Features)
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: The Power Of Sorrow (Category: Features)
- Lodro Rinzler: The Four Gates Of Speech: Is It Really A Good Idea To Call The Ex? (Category: Features)
With Trungpa, nothing was hidden; it was up to each person to make their own judgments about the behavior of the teacher. Read more: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Crazy Wisdom Film, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhism, Crazy Wisdom Movie, Crazy Wisdom, Film, Religion News
- E. Nina Rothe: Johanna Demetrakas' Crazy Wisdom : Can It Ever Be? (Category: Features)
- James Rotondi: Ian Astbury: The Cult's "Smash-and-Grab Buddhist" (Category: Features)
- Robin Amos Kahn: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Soufflé (Category: Features)
- Jennifer D. Fox: 'My Reincarnation' And The Changing Model Of Film Distribution (Category: Features)
Whatever one takes away from Crazy Wisdom, one thing is certain: Chogyam Trungpa is a spellbinding subject, one absolutely perfect to inspire a future generation of spiritualism. Read more: ChöGyam Trungpa, Johanna Demetrakas, Tibet, Pablo Bryant, Ram Dass, Robert Thurman, Buddhism, Allen Ginsberg, Crazy Wisdom, Rubin Museum of Art, Laemmle Theater, Kino Lorber, Culture Ne...
- Johanna Demetrakas: Crazy Wisdom: A Portrait Of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Category: Features)
- Jeffrey Small: 5 Insights From The World's Religions (Category: Features)
- Douglas LaBier: Your True Self Is 'Intelligent Stardust': Turning Points, Part 2 (Category: Features)
- Joel and Michelle Levey: Reflections On Wisdom, Wellness, And Wholeness (Category: Features)
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