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Burning Hope
This election process has taken a toll on so many around the world. In our sangha, the choices have been at the forefront of several discussions and has ultimately proven itself to be a dharma door for many of Infinite Smile's members. It's also a dharma door for me....
Being Your Own Therapist
The Venerable Robina Courtin offers this talk.
Maher’s Mark
Bill Maher speaks of his newly released film, Religulous: I don't use the word "atheist" about myself, because I think it mirrors the certitude I'm so opposed to in religion. What I say in the film is that I don't know. I don't know what happens when you die, and all...
Born Again Buddhists?
Barbara O'Brien, over at About.com takes on an interesting practice that is summarily given a pass by many Western practitioners: Buddhist temple in Thailand is offering instant rebirth, for a fee. People line up every day to climb into big, pink coffins. Monks chant...
Beyond the Future
In a recent blog post by Andrew Cohen, he rightly asserts a point so often misappropriated in alternative spiritual circles: Consciousness doesnt exist or work in mysterious ways outside of or away from the innermost depths of our individual and collective selves. In...
Palin’s Shadow
Deepak Chopra compares Sarah Palin to the shadow of Barak Obama in a recent commentary: Palins pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper. She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and...
At one with whose world…
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan Discuss Faith
While I happened upon this discussion late, I liked it very much. Both men are intelligent, passionate and polite. In their exchange Harris, author of The End of Faith, establishes a definition: I think that faith is, in principle, in conflict with reason (and,...
On beliefnet.com today Deepak Chopra blogs: In any system of organized religion, belief trumps first-hand experience. Such an experience, when it is truly spiritual, brings a sense of universality, far beyond our concepts of race and creed. Interesting echo of the...
This was a nice surprise. On CBS Sunday Morning, Green Gulch Farm was featured as a way to escape. Of course, if youre really doing the practice, its not about escape, but about facing everything and avoiding nothing. (p.201) Read the article here....