26Dec/10

New Year Forecasts

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2010 is coming to a close. It is the tail-end of what appears to be the worst three years of financial crisis since the Great Depression. Economists explain that the use of complex derivatives is one of the major reasons for the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of…

05Dec/10

Remember to Exercise During the Holidays — Exercise Empathy!

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Identifying a male or female by sight is easier than identifying a male or female brain. Full from the over-seasoned stuffing and booming television commercials, the holiday party moves closer to the fireplace. Having been immersed in the blinking Christmas lights and the background holiday music for so long,…

30Nov/10

The Trial

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09Nov/10

Emptiness in Full Bloom

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See pdf of Powerpoint outline on Emptiness in Full Bloom.

08Nov/10

Quit Being Upside Down!

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How’s this as a refrain for some of your crazy friends!? “Quit being upside down! Flip! Flip! Flip over!” 顛倒的是誰?…

26Oct/10

Are You Blind? Don’t You See, Our Love is Oozing Over. . .

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My parents often told us stories of how they fell in love. They were both giddy upon first laying eyes on each other. My father was wearing a striking red and my mother was looking like Snow White. People often commented on how they seemed to have walked out of…

21Oct/10

Signs of Meditative Absorption

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To test your progress in meditation and for scientific research into the effects of meditation, consider checking against these physical indicators: 1. Warmth. Heat and energetic pulsations felt in the body. Most easily felt in the palms and fingertips. The heat spreads to the rest of the body and makes the body softer…

20Oct/10

A Tautology of Buddhist Theology

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A Buddhist can be a Theist. A Buddhist can be an Atheist. A Buddhist can be both an Atheist and a Theist.A Buddhist can be neither an Atheist nor a Theist. A Buddhist can be a Theist.According to the Mahayana Buddhist cosmology, there are gods, including a God that has…

06Oct/10

The Underbelly of Enlightenment

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“I have got a story the likes of which you have never heard…” Until I read Eyes Wide Open by Mariana Caplan and Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie, I was completely ignorant of the pervasivenesss of the so-called “spiritual gossip”. To Caplan, however, it is relatively common for…