Religion

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has been living outside of his native Tibet for over 40 years ¨C and the exiling of the Dalai Lama has been an important issue in the cause to free Tibet.
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While most of the world is familiar with the Dalai Lama in regards to his position within Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama and China are also issues that make this man famous.

The curre...

While most people have heard of the Dalai Lama, who is an important Tibetan Buddhist figure, it is also important to learn about the succession of reborn Dalai Lamas to understand the office.
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One of the most popular spiritual paths that is in the news today is Buddhism ¨C practiced by everyone from teenagers to celebrities ¨C but just what is Tibetan Buddhism?

The answer t...

In America secular forces are actively trying to give Christianity the boot. Day by day trusted biblical precepts are being scoffed at, openly ignored and actively fought against.

Amer...

Here is a brief presentation of the first six of the twelve Chinese Horoscope signs, their nature, characteristics and attributes. I will present them as ordered by the supreme Chinese gods that creat...

Question: How do I overcome my sexual feelings?

Many times on television and in the movies, we are bombarded by sexual images of people talking about sex, having sex or looking ...

Psalm 127 reads as follows from the King James Version of the bible:

1] Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman w...

Psalm 133 reads from the King James Bible as follows:

1] Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
[2] It is like the precious ointment upo...

We live in exciting times for Liberal Catholics, and that excitement brings both welcome developments and challenges. Now a decade away from the centenary of the foundation of the Liberal Catholic Chu...

Rabbi Zusya said, ¡°In the world to come I will not be asked, ¡®Why were you not Moses?¡¯ I will be asked, ¡®Why were you not Zusya?¡¯¡± The problem is how to be the person we were meant t...

Inexperience, shallowness, evasiveness and outright lying are all part of lesser politics but ¡°flip flopping¡± stands out as the most obvious and the most hated of ulterior motives in a political...

A woman goes to her doctor for a mammogram. The test reveals a cancerous tumour but her doctor decides not to tell her. Two weeks ago 71 year old tenor Luciano Pavorotti was recording an album of reli...

CNN¡¯s choice of Christiane Amanpour to present these controversial issues was a wise choice because of her experience and her obvious ability to ask meaningful questions with skill and excellent ti...

Grabbing the Tail of a Dream

I believe that there is a life dream each of us has, especially ones that started when we were kids. Some of us wanted to be an astronaut; some wanted to f...

Happiness without a cause - this is who you are; this "you" of you; the seer, the one looking out through your eyes; the motion of aliveness that is flowing through your eyes.

This happ...

Does a weak mind attack others¡¯ faults? Yes.

Our minds are the battlefield. They are the places where our battles are won or lost. If we can take control of them, we will tak...

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16

This past Friday, I watched th...

"What is the connection between God and man? If God is unseen, how can a connection be established between man and something unseen? How can man see the connection? Is the one who sees the connecti...

A man asked a Sufi, ¡°People talk about male and female, but what is the essential difference between the two?¡±

The Sufi replied, ¡°O man, both are formed of the five elements. ...

The Plight of the Christians in the Middle East


Today, there are 30 million Christians who live in countries whose majority are Muslims. Some 15 million Christians live in Indon...

I personally do not do affirmations-for a well disciplined mind, affirmations are the slow way to get what you desire. I am not saying I have this kind of mind. On the contrary, I am a slow thinker, m...

A mind informed mindbody unravelling of its mind informancy is an early phase of what happens after you have learnt to find this "you" that you truly are and have learnt to stop at and as this one - t...

Learning to take time and sit quietly at the feet of the Lord has been quite a challenge for me, as it is for most Christians. The rewards, however, have been great, and keep me endeavoring to grow in...

One of Eminem's popular rap lyrics really hit the spot. That rap song frankly posed the question:

¡°Will the real Christians please stand up?¡±

Day after day, pe...

Who you are is not even remotely alike to who you think you are. ¡°You¡± are ¡°that¡±, the very movement and energetic motion in which not only this very thinking is arising, but in which ever...

Psalm 28 reads from the King James Bible as follows:

Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the ...

Psalm 14 reads as follows from the Oxford Annotated Bible:

Fools say in their hearts,¡± There is no God.¡± They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; There is no one who does good...

Great thinkers of the past and the present have known that everything in this universe is made of energy. You, me, your computer, your chair, your table are all minute particles of energy pulsating at...

Question: I¡¯m having trouble being consistent in valuing God¡¯s Word. Suggestions?

First of all, why is it important for us to value God¡¯s Word? To put it first place ...

"The Unconscious Mind and The Iceberg Metaphor," a useful metaphor to understand is the iceberg and how it can be associated with the unconscious mind, and how the two parts of our mind, the conscious...

Coloring Without Lines

I look back at my life and realize that I learned all that I would ever need to know about people in first grade art class. There seemed to be two groups of kids...

Introduction
Every book has a main point. Even poems and articles have a main theme. There is always, "the moral to the story," right? Well, the Bible has a main point too. The Bible addres...

Psalm 116 reads as follows from the New Oxford Annotated Bible:

I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and supplications,

Because he inclined his ear to me,

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