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Healing the Spirit/Matter Split

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Negotiation, John Gray, Awakening, Balance of Life, Buddha, State of Consciousness, Contribution, Iphone, Success Built to Last, Jack Canfield, The Secret, Est, Werner Erhart, Giving, Starbucks, Stewart Emery, Greatness, Poonjaji, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

The greatest area of split and misunderstanding, which I discover among my friends and other writers and teachers, is the split between the longing of the spirit and material desire.

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Jesus Didn't Have a Cellphone...

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Marc Gafni, Ekhart Tolle, HWL Poonjaji, Jesus, Jean Houston, Michael Beckwith, Saint Francis, Evolution, Awakening, Historical Figures, Buddha, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

One of the greatest potholes today to people living in a relaxing condition in their day-to-day life, is the sense of wanting to compare ourselves to historical figures and "spiritual heros" from the past.

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Learning To Go With The Flow: What Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, And The Buddha Have To Teach Us About Resistance

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Eudora Welty, Edward Kennedy, Anatole France, Hew Len, Health Care Reform Debates, Featured Contributor, Letting Go, Michael Beckwith, Jungian Analyst, Buddha, New Chapters, Grieving, Author, Resistance, The Inner Life, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Just putting the names Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, and Buddha in the same title might seem like quite a tossed salad. In a way, it's true. And, ye...

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8 Steps To Bounce Back To Your Best

Anne Naylor | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Rumi, Maya Angelou, Dr Cara Barker, Buddha, Joy, Jill and Kevin's Wedding Dance, Sai Baba, Thich Nhat Hanh, Unpanishads, Happiness, Living News
Anne Naylor

"...keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." - Rumi On Monday, I struck the bottom of my c...

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Why It May No Longer Help to Be a Liberal

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Wisdom 2.0, Buddha, Spirituality, Helath Care, Buddhsim, Twitter, Liberals, Buddhist, Evan Williams, Healthcare Debate, Republicans, Living News
Soren Gordhamer

Can we step out of our identities that are constantly looking for ways to justify themselves and to put down the other, and open to a deeper presence and wisdom?

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Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

Dean Sluyter | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Advertisements for Myself, Zen, Poetry, Franny and Zooey, Meditation, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anatta, Nirvana, Donald Rumsfeld, World Wrestling Federation, Self-Inquiry, New York Review of Books, Gospel of Thomas, Norman Mailer, Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Advaita, J.D. Salinger, Wwf, Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Eastern Wisdom, Emily Dickinson, Buddhism, Transcendentalists, Amherst, Dzogchen, Living News
Dean Sluyter

When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.

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'Is There a Doctor in the House?'

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: David's Quotes, Gates, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Accident, Murray, Victor Hugo, Palin, Featured Contributor, Walter Cronkite, Simple Tip, The Unexpected, Obama, Buddha, Health, Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Of all the words I've heard in the past few days, the ones that spoke most deeply to me were these aboard the returning Amtrak train to Seattle: "Is there a doctor on board?" Believe me, I was invested in the answer.

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The Dharma of Celebrity Death

Dean Sluyter | Posted 08.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Clark Gable, Farrah Fawcett, Elvis Presley, Yoga, Celebrities, Elvis, Keye Luke, Walter Cronkite, Celebrity Deaths, Walt Whitman, Buddhism, Mc Yogi, Death, Buddha, Bodhichitta, Satyagraha, Keith Carradine, Ed McMahon, Charlie Chan, Beastie Boys, David Carradine, Kung Fu, Entertainment News
Dean Sluyter

Everybody dies. Why, from a spiritual point of view, are celebrity deaths such an extra big deal?

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Gay Marriage: What Would Buddha Do?

James Shaheen | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Buddha, Gay Sex, Buddhism, Gay Marriage, Dalia Lama, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
James Shaheen

Buddhism is perhaps even more diverse than Christianity. In fact, the differences among schools can be so vast that some scholars consider them different religions.

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It's Official: Nobody's Cool. (Kerouac Posthumously Blows It)

Dean Sluyter | Posted 06.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Baseball, James Dean, Nirvana, Jack Kerouac, Cool, Lester Young, Prez, Beats, Beatniks, Hipsters, Hippies, Buddha, Miles Davis, Jazz, Fantasy Baseball, Charlie Parker, Beat Generation, Meditation, Marlon Brando, Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Dan Brown, Fashion, Style News
Dean Sluyter

But cool as an outer pose, as an attitude you can cop, is dead. When the truly cool people show up in your life, you won't recognize them -- they'll be too cool for that.

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Sid - The Rebel Saint - Part II

Noah Levine | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Dharma Punx, Meditation, Practice, Noah Levine, Buddha, Living News
Noah Levine

(con't from Part I) He sought out all of the spiritual masters of his time. He studied with several great Hindu masters and learned all of the practi...

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Buddhist Advice For Tough Times... via Sakyong Mipham

Waylon Lewis | Posted 04.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Fear, Buddha, Charity, Buddhist, Economy, Green, Meditation, Community, Society, Buddhism, Business, Waylon Lewis, Compassion, Living News
Waylon Lewis

When our news is filled with the karmic results of our "Greed is Good!" ways (AIG, Merril Lynch, Madoff and Ponzi schemes), I personally find it helpful to turn back to my Buddhist tradition.

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What Buddha Might Say To Bill O'Reilly

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 03.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Inner Life, Buddha, Bill O'Reilly, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

What's with Bill O'Reilly? He does not seem to know what he is saying! Ed was at a Dalai Lama talk in London when the Dalai Lama said, "People say t...

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Orthoskepsis: When Too Much Thinking Is A Bad Thing

Tara Stiles | Posted 02.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Common Sense Issues, Food, Buddha, Barack Obama, Joy, Living News
Tara Stiles

We're always thinking, of our health, finances, family, friends, environment, politics, and so on. We think of ways to improve, earn more, get ahead ...

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What Buddha Might Say To Barack Obama

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness, The Inner Life, Buddha, Barack Obama, Buddha's Message for Obama, Lessons From Buddha, What Buddhists Might Say to Barack Obama, What Buddhists Might Say to Barack, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

There is a story of a Buddhist monk who meditated for many years on the quality of patience. He was immersed in everything to do with patience. One da...

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What's Your Poison?

Michael Sigman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Financial Security, Baby Boomers, Buddha, Rick Perlstein, Economy, Recession Fears, Job Security, Economic Fears, Financial Crisis, Buddha Poisons, Nixonland, Recession, Living News
Michael Sigman

Economic greed and fear are two sides of the same coin. When things start getting better, will the preoccupation with money also abate? Or will fear simply be replaced by another cycle of greed?

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What Buddha Might Say To George Bush (And Us)

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Happiness, Inner Life, Buddha, George Bush, Buddhism, George W. Bush, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

If a bull goes straight when the herd is crossing a road, then they will all go straight because he leads the way. The same among people. If the one w...

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Wanna Check out Buddhism? Top 10 Buddhist Teachers Living in America.

Waylon Lewis | Posted 01.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Zen, Buddhist Meditation, How to Meditate, Dalai Lama, Shambhala Mountain Center, Tibet, Pema Chodron, Compassion, Religion, Sharon Salzberg, Buddha, Buddhist, Meditation, Omega Institute, Karme Choling, Buddhism, Meditation Practice, Kripalu, Tibetan, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Spirituality, Shambhala, Living News
Waylon Lewis

Get thee to an eco meditation cushion, if only for a few minutes each morning before the day's madness ensues, and if you need a jump-start of inspiration or a little training, check out one of these Buddhist teachers.

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It's Time for Some Loving Kindness

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Spirituality, Meditation, Inner Life, Buddha, Personal Health, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

In the last week we have been witnessing a huge amount of hateful and vicious language and behavior in the election. Despite promising to run a positi...

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What Buddha Might Say To John McCain

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Spirituality and Politics, The Inner Life, Buddha, John McCain, Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We are not presuming to know what the Buddha might say to John McCain, any more than what he might say to any of us. But the Buddha did teach very cle...

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Following Buddha Through San Francisco

NY Times | Perry Garfinkel | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Perry Garfinkel, Golden Gate Park Tea Garden, Travel, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddha Tea Garden, San Fransisco, Living News

A BLOCK off Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown -- beyond the well-worn path tourists take past souvenir shops, restaurants and a dive saloon ca...

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Cabbage Sutra

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Connecting, Meditation, Insight, Buddha, Spirituality, Living News
Sharon Salzberg

When I looked at the cabbage, what I saw was forces of nature coming together in a certain configuration, at a certain time, with tentative form and tentative color, coming together.

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The Dalai Lama: Ultimate Camp Counselor

Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Dalai Lama, Nirvana, Enlightenment, Chesapeake Bay, Summer, Eightfold Path, Healing, Buddhism, The Inner Life, Buddha, Camp, Self-Discovery, Spirituality, Self-Preservation, Living News
Lindsay Mannering

Every August from second grade to freshman year of high school, Mom and Dad packed my cedar trunk into the Plymouth Voyager and drove me northeast acr...

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What Would Buddha Do?

Jared Bernstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Policy, Buddha, Bush Administration, Market Forces, Absolutism, Appeasement, John McCain, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

In Buddhism, the notion of balance is central. Over the Bush years, there has been a damaging drift toward absolutism. You're with us or against us, diplomacy is appeasement, tax cuts forever, the axis of evil, and markets always work best (and government, worst).

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Top 5 Sexiest Spiritual Icons

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Sister Wendy, Demi Moore Kabbalah, Buddha, Ashton Kutcher Kabbalah, Madonna, Dalai Lama, Sister Wendy Nun, Demi Moore, Madonna Kabbalah, The Inner Life, Barack Obama, My Spiritual Journey, Living News
Verena von Pfetten

I've been thinking about spirituality lately (duh), and I've realized that if there is one word that people don't (or won't) associate with spirituali...

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