December 22, 2007 – 11:24 pm
From the book, The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Meditation is not imitation, but creation. Meditators who only imitate their instructors cannot go far. The same is true of cooking, or anything. A good cook is someone with a creative spirit. You can enter the Meditation on the Interdependence of All Phenomena through many [...]
December 1, 2007 – 10:54 pm
From MayoClinic.com.
When someone you care about hurts you, you can hold on to anger, resentment and thoughts of revenge or embrace forgiveness and move forward.
By embracing forgiveness, you embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy. Here, Katherine M. Piderman, Ph.D., staff chaplain at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., discusses forgiveness and how it can lead you down [...]
October 11, 2007 – 9:34 pm
The story of Prince Siddhartha and his spiritual transformation into the Buddha.
Life of the Buddha. (BuddhaNet)
Related:
Buddha’s Compassion And The Story of Kisa Gotami and The Mustard Seed.
September 26, 2007 – 11:31 pm
From Forbes.com.
‘I extend my support and solidarity with the recent peaceful movement for democracy in Burma,’ the Dalai Lama said in a message released by the Tibet office and datelined in Dharamsala in northern India.
‘I fully support their call for freedom and democracy and take this opportunity to appeal to freedom-loving people all over the [...]
From Vanity Fair.
A single soccer match achieves what five years of combat and negotiations could not: an apparent end to Ivory Coast’s civil war. The man who brought the warring sides together was not a politician or a gun-toting strongman, but Didier Drogba, the star striker for Ivory Coast.
For nearly five years, Ivory Coast had [...]