Buddhism
Templeton Prize - Current Winner
- Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:36
- Viên Minh
WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader whose long-standing engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own religious traditions has made him an incomparable global voice for universal ethics, nonviolence, and harmony among world religions, has won the 2012 Templeton Prize.
Buddhism seeks to explain suffering in life
- Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:24
- Tawachai Onsanit
Some people view Buddhism as pessimism. They call it the "religion of misery," because the word "suffering" or "unsatisfactoriness," which the Buddha taught in his first four noble truths, sticks in their minds.
SVC talks on ‘Buddhism, Spirituality, U.S. Politics’
- Monday, 12 March 2012 16:44
- SVC
BENNINGTON -- What if the Dalai Lama were President of the United States? Coming from a Buddhist perspective, how different would American policies be, both domestically and internationally?
Pain relief: meditation better than drugs, study finds
- Sunday, 26 February 2012 00:34
- Sarah Berry
When Subhana Barzaghi was a midwife she taught breathing and meditation techniques to relieve the pain caused by contractions.
Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Part II)
- Tuesday, 07 February 2012 17:17
- Lewis Richmond
A few weeks ago I began a series of posts called "Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons." In that post I mentioned three lessons: enlightenment is not what we thought, meditation is not good for everything and religious corruption is universal.
The power of meditation
- Tuesday, 07 February 2012 03:53
- Cheryl Clemens
How a quiet mind can unlock wonders
To understand the impact meditation can have on the human mind, picture a glass of muddy water. If you stir it, the water stays cloudy and anything that might sink to the bottom is instantly sucked back into motion. But if you allow the glass to become still, slowly the dirt settles to the bottom and the water begins to clear.
The power of meditation reaches troubled teens
- Sunday, 27 November 2011 13:01
- KSEE News
Inside a juvenile detention center you might not expect to find teenagers doing yoga, meditating, or doing breathing exercises. But in an unlikely pairing, Buddhist monks are helping troubled teens overcome their anger issues.
Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons
- Friday, 04 November 2011 17:28
- Lewis Richmond
It's been about 50 years since the bulk of the Asian meditation masters arrived here -- Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Vietnamese and so on. Many of us have spent our whole adult lives trying to practice and absorb what they taught us. I've been thinking recently about the "50 year lessons" that we have gleaned during this time.
