Annual Buddhist Celebration

 Wesak or Vesak, also known as Buddha Day, celebrates the Buddha’s birthday, enlightenment and death. It is the most important day in the Buddhist calendar. In Japanese Buddhism, 8th April marks the birth of...

First Bible Exposition for 2008 Opened with the Holy Kiss

Parañaque, Philippines (January 8, 2008) – Bro. Eli Soriano, Presiding Minister of the Members Church of God International (MCGI), on a live video conference broadcast from abroad, opened his first Bible...

Globalisation - Making China More Westernised

"Scored yet?' That was the first question from several young adventurers crowded around a table at a bar in Lhasa, Tibet's colourful capital city. Between sips of yak butter tea, they trade jokes and swap tales about their latest sexual encounters. These twentysomethings on...

Dance Like Nobody is Watching

The other day I went for a walk with an Eckhart Tolle lecture sinking in through my mp3 (what can I say - I’m a groupie!!!) I was approaching the Tel Aviv Port just as E.T. was in his motivational peak (for those familiar with Eckhart you know he’s not exactly a...

Google Analytics Predicts Where Human Consciousness is Going

All I can say is this: The different keywords that have been showing up lately on my blog statistics really start to paint a clear picture that something.. SOMETHING is happening to our collective consciousness - much of which I myself have yet to understand. Here are some...

Free Hug Anyone? Going Once, Going Twice…

My hat goes off to these people; it takes alot of guts to hug random strangers. But when you see the smiles on the faces of the recievers, you understand what little it takes to make the world around us a better...

Modern enlightenment

Central station Stockholm a cold february day. Rush hour. 5 minutes later he was gone...I had a thousand questions in my head. And a big, warm smile in my face.

Habermas

Jurgen Habermas a modern political philosopher was a member of the Frankfurt School of Hegelian Marxism. His recent works on Public Potlitics challenges the theories of classic liberals and the current post-modernist communitarian ideology of identity politics. Extracts from...

Enlightenment 17 QuickStart Guide | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Enlightenment 17 or E17 as it is generally called, is a cool Window Manager for X. The latest stable version of Enlightenment is E16 (0.16.8.1). In this article we will talk about the latest CVS build available (0.16.999.023).http://www.howtoforge.com/enlightenment17_quickstart

Why Apple logged out of India

"Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has always had a thing about India. While he was a young technician at game developer Atari in the mid-'70s, Jobs took a break and backpacked around India with a college friend in...

Next on menu for Starbucks? It's hot food

According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and salads. ...

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