Tag: philosophy
group name: globalharmony
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December 31, 2008 04:11 PM EST --
With the world in a spin, it certainly makes sense to use any remedy available to us to make our lives better. It is harder and harder to forgive what has happened in the last eight years, but at some . . .
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July 21, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
Okay; What did the Buddha teach?
I'll check back Sunday and see if there are some opinions and views expressed herein...
Peace.
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May 15, 2007 03:53 AM EDT --
My appreciation to Stephanie Dickison
for this thoughtful review...jrg
<cite>For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony - A Buddhist Perspective</cite>
Daisaku Ikeda
Middleway . . .
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January 05, 2009 09:05 PM EST --
Although this is not an original thought on my part, until someone else claims it, I hereby take possession.
Women may want all kinds of things but all we really need are three good bras and one . . .
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June 01, 2007 02:21 AM EDT --
I am getting to be an elderly gentleman. Well elderly, even if I am no gentleman. Getting old has a few perks. For one, I am still above ground and breathing. . . .
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July 17, 2008 08:32 AM EDT --
In the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin , the noosphere (sometimes spelled nöosphere ) can be seen as the " sphere of human thought" being derived from the . . .
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July 02, 2008 06:57 PM EDT --
"Culture is knowledge applied with wisdom." ---- Josei Toda (2nd Soka Gakkai President)
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December 10, 2008 04:41 PM EST --
Lately don't you need somebody, even a stranger, to tell you everything is going to be all right? I know I do.
Every day there is some other crisis of even grander proportions that completely . . .
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June 12, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
It’s all the rage, and apparently has been from the get-go, to proclaim some wonderful thing we have concluded to be true, and insist that all ought to agree with it. It’s that last . . .
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July 10, 2007 12:42 PM EDT --
Life may be more akin to a series of meets than a single marathon. You can lose a race here or there, as long as you win in one contest, in one area. All the struggles you endured . . .
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June 12, 2008 06:02 PM EDT --
"Gold can be neither burned by fire nor corroded or swept away by water, but
iron is vulnerable to both. A worthy person is like gold, a fool like iron."
( The Heritage of . . .
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May 15, 2007 04:03 AM EDT --
This is the URL to the Middleway Press book discussion guide for the book "For the Sake of Peace" by Daisaku Ikeda.
http://www.middlewaypress.com/reading_groups/FSP-guide.pdf
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June 02, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
"You are your own master.
Could anyone else be your master?
When you have gained control over yourself,
you have found a master of rare value."
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June 16, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Daily Wisdom
From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
The Buddha dwells within our hearts. For example, flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. . . .
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May 23, 2007 01:05 AM EDT --
"ONLY WITHIN the open space created by dialogue,
whether conducted with our neighbors, with his-
tory, with nature or the cosmos, can human wholeness
be sustained. We are not born human in . . .
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June 09, 2007 10:14 PM EDT --
The Hummingbird of Peace Copyright 06 by Douglas Gilbert
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June 18, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
Money is: Human labor.
It is something people will accept in exchange for their effort, on the assumption that such a something can later be exchanged for the work of other people. If people . . .
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July 26, 2008 12:42 AM EDT --
Dr. Randy Pausch, the professor famous for giving his 'Last Lecture' in September of 2007 after having been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, died this morning in Virginia. He is . . .
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August 24, 2008 08:05 AM EDT --
dog guarding owners
scares beautiful deer away
they scamper in fright
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June 22, 2008 07:46 PM EDT --
Buddhist Practice : Experiences
Buddhism and My Psychiatric Practice
By Charles Byrne, Ireland
It has been said that the suffering caused by mental illness is worse
than that caused . . .
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