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Buddhism: The Most Accurate World Religion?
Buddhism is in vogue in the West, and has been for a long time. Partly, it's that Buddhism seems "spiritual"...
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Unable To Work, Indian Immigrant Women Turn To Spiritual Practices For Comfort
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Even though she met her husband through an arranged marriage, Pooja Sindhwani considers herself a modern woman. She worked in interior design in her native India for four years, and she and her husband spent a year getting to know each other before their wedding.
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Arianna Huffington: My Conversation With the Dalai Lama: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Part 2) (VIDEO)
Since 1987, the Dalai Lama has been organizing dialogues between scientists and Buddhist thinkers on a range of subjects, from physics and astronomy to empathy and compassion. "These are times," he says, "when destructive emotions like anger, fear and hatred are giving rise to devastating problems throughout the world. But I believe we have a valuable opportunity to make progress in dealing with ...
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Grim Picture of Health System in Nepal
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a health system as “all activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, and maintain health”. Better health, undoubtedly, is the central to human happiness and well being. On the other hand, healthy people are productive; they live longer, and hence contribute to nation’s economic progress. People’s health can be influenced by many factors ...
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Our emotional brain
Pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson deepens our understanding of the mind-body connection. He’s identified six unique emotional styles and explains the brain chemistry underlying them. He explains that there are simple strategies and interventions which we can use to change our emotional styles. He believes one effective example is through mindfulness meditation, after studying the brain ...
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The Point on asteroid mining and antiscience | Bad Astronomy
The Point is a web-based talk show on the Young Turks YouTube channel where various issues are discussed by panelists. They have people send in short videos making some salient point, then panelists discuss it. Cara Santa Maria — the senior science correspondent at The Huffington Post — guest-hosted the show this last week, and asked me to send in a video for discussion. I talked about asteroid ...
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Maurice Sendak’s endless rumpus
"Where the Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, just one year after I was born. This, I am sure, was no accident. I have always been up for a wild rumpus. Which doesn't make me particularly special. The 1960s, as "Mad Men" takes pains to remind us with each new episode, was a decade-long wild rumpus. If you didn't seize every chance to ride piggy-back on half-menacing, half-jubilant dancing ...
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Keep extremists on a tight leash
Moderate opinion in this country could derive some relief from the knowledge that an action plan is taking shape for the systematic implementation of the LLRC recommendations.
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Sacred Spaces religion briefs for the week of April 28, 2012
SATURDAY, APRIL 28• Congregation Kol Shofar's dog walk and Havdallah service is at 8 p.m. at Blackie's Pasture on Tiburon Boulevard in Tiburon.
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