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Relaxation: The Art of Doing Nothing (VIDEO)

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Tension, Relaxation, Yoga, Ram Dass, The Dalai Lama, Tara Stiles, Calm, Inner Calm, Anxiety, Compassion, Living News
Tara Stiles

tension is like a clogged drain, keeping what we don't need from dropping away, standing in the way of our potential. We need to dig out all the sludge.

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Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World

Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Yu-Ai, Prime Minister of Japan Dr. Hatoyama, F.H. Abed, Ashutosh Garg, Eckhardt Tolle, Betty Williams, Dr. Sunil Chacko, Nobel Prize Winners, Victor Chan, Jody Williams, Murray Gell-Mann, Sewa, Swanee Hunt, Fetzer Institute, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, Mary Robinson, The Dalai Lama, Peter Buffett, Governor General Jean, Sir Ken Robinson, California First Lady Maria Shriver, Xiaolian Hu Deputy Governor Chinese Central Bank, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John and Lotte Hecht Memorial Foundation, Warren Buffett, Pierre Omidyar, Dr. Hal Gunn, Vancouver Board of Trade, Ela Bhatt, United Nations, Living News
Sunil Chacko

Compassion, forgiveness and interdependence were major themes at the dialogue. The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Peace Summit with the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, and Nobel Laureates

Catherine Ingram | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Vancouver Peace Summit, Peace-Summit, Eckhart Tolle, The Dalai Lama, Maria Shriver, Nobel Laureates, Living News
Catherine Ingram

The weekend edition of the paper was the prelude to the Vancouver Peace Summit, a three-day gathering of luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Maria Shriver, numerous Nobel laureates, and a couple dozen other presenters.

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How Would You Decide? -- Keeping Me Honest

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Tenzin N. Taklha, The Dalai Lama, Michele Kane, Ethics, The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Justice, Terry Thornton, James Whitehouse, Compassion, Living News
Jim Lichtman

I do not want to create the false impression that compassion was the sole criteria parole commissioners faced during former Manson Family member Susan Atkins' 2009 hearing.

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Dalai Lama Pushes For Democracy In Typhoon-Hit Taiwan

AP | PETER ENAV | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Taiwan Typhoon Morakot, Dalai Lama Taiwan, Dalai Lama, Taiwan, The Dalai Lama, Taiwan Typhoon, China Taiwan, China Taiwan Relations, Dalai Lama China, Typhoon Taiwan, Typhoon Morakot Taiwan, Dalai Lama Democracy, Taiwan Mudslide, World News

SHIAO LIN, Taiwan — The Dalai Lama exhorted Taiwan on Monday to safeguard its democracy, interspersing prayers for the victims of Typhoon Morako...

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Pleasure or Pain: Take Your Pick

Tabby Biddle | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, Buddhist Philosophy, The Dalai Lama, Thailand, Women and Pleasure, Regena Thomasaeur, Meditation, Wat Suan Mokh, Women and Power, Buddhism, Women and Greed, Tabby Biddle, Living News
Tabby Biddle

In Buddhism one is advised to release desirous attachments to eliminate pain and suffering in one's life, however could it be that denying aspects of your very human self causes its own kind of pain?

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Tibet Riots Due To Failed Chinese Government Policies: Report

Time | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, Foreign Affairs, Tibet Riots, Dalai Lama China, Tibet, China Riots, China Tibet, China, Advocacy, World News

A new report from a group of Chinese scholars has for the first time challenged China's official explanation that the deadly riots that broke out acro...

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"God Talk" -- Enough Already?

Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, Atheism, Erica Jong, Secularism, Buddhism, New Atheism Movement, Living News
Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen

Let us not wait for "God" or anybody or anything else to act, while the ball is so obviously in our own court!

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South Africa: Dalai Lama Controversy Splits Government

allAfrica.com | Faatimah Hendricks | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, 2010 World Cup, Barbara Hogan, World Cup, Fw-De-Klerk, Soccer, The Dalai Lama, Africa, Soccer Tournament, Dalai Lama South Africa, Tibet, Dalai Lama Tibet, World News

Cape Town -- South Africa's health minister, Barbara Hogan, has condemned her own government for denying the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama,...

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How To Forgive - And Be Happier Now: A Testimonial

Anne Naylor | Posted 04.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Courage, Loving, Forgiving, Human Spirit, Peace, International Forgiving Day 15 March, Victor Frankl, The Dalai Lama, Josh Groban, Living News
Anne Naylor

"The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon t...

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China Orders Tibetans To Celebrate New Year And Drop Boycott

Telegraph | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Chinese New Year, Tenzin Taklha, The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, Tibetan New Year, Losar, Tibet, Dalai Lama China, China Tibet, China, World News

Losar, or Tibetan New Year, falls on Wednesday and is usually an occasion for feasting and communal celebration. This year, however, a growing number ...

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Happy Camping: Skipping Down the Path to Enlightenment

Kay Goldstein | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Happiness Quotient, Happiness, The Dalai Lama, Happiness Makeover, Eudaemonia, Awakening Joy, Left Brain, Art of Happiness, Meditation, Suze Orman, Happiness Business, Aymee Coget, Spiritual Path, Right Brain, James Baraz, Living News
Kay Goldstein

Have you ever noticed how advertising agencies claim to know what will make us happy? They know we're worried about our happiness quotient and can easily seduce us.

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Chill Out: Compassion The Dalai Lama Way

Ed Shapiro | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Inner Life, Living, Spirituality, Happiness, Compassion, The Dalai Lama, Living News
Ed Shapiro

Shortly after Deb and I were married we went to India and spent our honeymoon in ashrams and monasteries. We were at McCleod Ganj where the Dalai Lama...

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