This has been all over our Facebook. Good stuff! You know our stand, though: quieting your #mind is just a warm-up, and #meditation is just the beginning. It's about what you meditate on. http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Meditation-transforms-roughest-San-Francisco-5136942.php
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If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence – and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within,
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http://www.npr.org/series/104257486/the-science-of-spirituality The Science Of Spirituality : NPRMore than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2382017/Selfish-people-eventually-die-evolution-favours-cooperation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Why you SHOULD give away your last chocolate: Selfish people ‘will eventually die out’ because evolution favours cooperationResearchers at Michigan State University found that selfishness will eventually disappear as a personality trait because evolution favours cooperation.
Great wisdom from my Stepson, Zachary Jucha I have been studying Buddhism for the past 11 years and tonight for the first time I realized what it means to be a Buddhist. Buddhism is not a doctrine, it is not a set of rituals or morals, it is not endless ontological intellectualizations, it is not
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Any Buddhist worth their beads should already know this to be true, and now this professor at the Wharton School of Business puts it into practice, proves it with case-studies and wrote a book about it, which is now in my Amazon Wishlist (contact me about that last one: my birthday is coming up) Is
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A comment to the question “Does anyone use sutras when they meditate?” in the Buddhism and Meditation community on G+ According to the Indo-Tibetan tradition, there are 3 kinds of meditation, and sutras would definitely be useful for 2 of them. The kind we are most familiar with is jok-gom, or placement meditation. That is
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Spoiler Alert: no matter how earth-friendly, natural and healthy you are, in the normal course of things the earth will end and you will die. It is inevitable. You could care for your body perfectly with the right food and right activity, and it will still self-destruct. No exceptions. We could stop CO2 emissions tomorrow,
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Although Buddha-Dharma travelled far and wide in Asia, Tibet is just a hop over the Himalayas from its birthplace in Northern India. There was a 500-year transmission during its golden age of great monastic universities such as Nalanda. One finds many texts were translated not just word-for-word, but sometimes syllable-by-syllable. Some claim that Tibetans just
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