Watching any documentary about animals either wild or domestic, we realize that they are much more peaceful than humans. Lions do not attack unless they are hungry and that is happening a couple of times …
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Why Animals Are More Peaceful Than Humans?
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Samadhi Part 1: Maya, the Illusion of the Self (2017)
Samadhi Part 1 (Maya the Illusion of the Self) is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi. Samadhi is an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or transcendent union that …
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Why Does Life Seem To Be More Difficult When We Get Older?
I have a colleague that has a funny motto on her desk. It says “The older I get, the better I was.” I could not stop laughing just thinking of it, but on the other …
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How Do We Heal Our Bodies?
“Mens sana in corpore sano” is a Latin phrase, translated as “a healthy mind in a healthy body.” However, the western philosophers got it backward. Our minds are creating healthy bodies. Every disease we have …
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The Matrix
We may have seen the movie “The Matrix.” In that movie, we, humans lived a dual role. In the matrix, we were humans living their lives in a fake reality as we know it and …
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Be Here Now
In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal …
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How do we keep someone happy?
We must understand we cannot make people happy. Temporary we can create a feeling of joy and content, but that is not happiness. Our tentatives of keeping people happy are degenerating after all in attachments, …
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Is Being Sick A Punishment?
In a previous article “Why Do We Get Sick” we have explained the mechanism of getting sick. We may ask the next question “Is that a punishment?” When we get sick we feel restricted; we …
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Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001)
After Richard Alpert was fired from Harvard in 1963 for conducting psychedelic drug research, he journeyed to India, found a guru and was renamed Ram Dass (“Servant of God”). Soon, Ram Dass became a spiritual …
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A Great Teacher
How do we define a great teacher? Every single one of us has encountered teachers during our lives in many areas. Some of them were great teachers some not so enlightened. What does it take …
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Understanding Our Mind: 51 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
A book by Thich Nhat Hanh A finalist for the 2001 Nautilus Award, Understanding Our Mind, is Thich Nhat Hanh’s profound look at Buddhist psychology with insights into how these ancient teachings apply to the modern …
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We Have Claimed The Moon
Many of us have doubts that we, humans never set foot on the moon, but our greed is so inflated that we do not care. We have claimed the Moon. The Moon is ours, we …
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One Wood Monastery
Not many of us know that Romania, an eastern European country is full of historical sites. There are hundreds of churches and monasteries dated from 14th century, some of them truly impressive through simplicity and …
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Who Would Know?
We pass through life sometimes with honesty sometimes with greed and anger. No matter what we do, we are telling ourselves that nobody will find out. What we have is a private bank of information, …
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Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest book ever written. The wisdom is undeniable, and the simplicity of expression is transpiring in amazing teaching for both philosophical and religious. Lao Tzu, the author, is a great teacher …
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