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Change Your Telomeres, Change Your Life
What’s A Telomere? When you’re stressed—whether it’s with financial woes, relationship struggles or job problems—not only do your co-workers and friends know it, your body knows it too, all the way down to the tiny tips at the end of your chromosomes. Those tips, called telomeres, are like the caps at the end of your shoelaces. [...]
India is a Smorgasbord of Spirituality
At the end of last year I returned from my second trip to India, in awe of how Indians manage to live every day in a spiritual way despite the organized chaos of a country with 1 billion people. I visited Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Rohet, Varanasi, Goa, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Bengaluru. Although [...]
Why Do We Enjoy Making Fun of Others?
Two men and a woman videoed themselves enthusiastically laughing as they beat up an old man. Nineteen year-old Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate and a friend secretly video taped him having gay sex and put it out on the internet. Children giggle when another child falls [...]
Teaching Meditation in Schools (infographic)
In the past decade, many public elementary and high schools have adopted programs to teach young people contemplative practices like meditation and yoga. This infographic shows the findings of recent scientific research showing the surprising benefits that result: h/t Edutopia
Harmony and Disruption Are Part of the Same Whole
The tremendous event of a human birth begins an epic story of both chaos and harmony, a profoundly familiar rhythm of life that we know and revisit on both physiological and emotional levels as long as we live. As soothing and essential as harmony is life demands disruption as well. Harmony is disrupted, and life-forms [...]
Compassion The Dalai Lama Way
Shortly after we were married we went to India and spent our honeymoon in ashrams and monasteries, and then in McCleod Ganj, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile along with other Tibetan refugees who have escaped Chinese rule in Tibet. Once there we went to the Office of Securities to request a meeting with [...]
If You’re Not Here Then Where Are You?
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. John Lennon Who said life would be like walking the yellow brick road, or that the human condition would be easy? And why is it so important to be here? What’s the big deal? It appears that the reason we’re not happy is [...]
Walk the Talk Show: Running with the Mind of Meditation
“It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don’t we think about training our minds?” Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal, speaks with legendary meditation teacher and marathon runner Rinpoche Sakyong Mipham about his upcoming book, Running with the Mind of Meditation. You can [...]
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