Student Spends Gap Year in Buddhist Monastary in Bangkok

Clara Tait tells the TIMES why she gave up partying in exchange for meditation.   " Mid-morning lunch was followed by more meditation, and then a two-hour break, during which I either cried or rang my mother,...

Army cordons seal off rebel monasteries in Tibet

" More than 1,000 Buddhist monks are still locked up under armed guard in monasteries around Lhasa, four months after anti-Chinese riots, while the authorities implement their harshest crackdown on religion in decades. Eyewitnesses confirm that People’s Liberation Army...

Basic Meditation Exercises

"Now that you’ve begun to develop the ability to move energy around in your body there are some things that you can do with it. The following exercises range from pretty simple to pretty complicated, but as you develop your abilities you’ll eventually find that you can do...

Mantra Meditation Reveals a Hidden Agenda: Are the Gods Alive and Well and Wo...

What I expected to see when I came back to the Fairfield scene after 20 years away from Transcendental Meditation was a group of mainstay meditators true-blue to Maharishi and a group of robust dissenters, whose...

Beatles' Guru Passes On

As Stevie Wonder once said: "Transcendental / meditation / gives you / peace of mii-iiind..." RIP Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced transcendental meditation to the West and gained fame in...

Freezing His Butt Hof: New Ice Immersion Record

Immersing himself in a tank of ice for over an hour, Wim "The Iceman" Hof has broken his own world record and reaffirmed his nickname."A man who calls himself a tantric master broke his own world record by standing...

M-velope 2 - Transformable structure for personal meditation

"M-velope 2 is one of Michael Jantzen’s latest functional art designs for a transformable structure. It is created to provide a special place for personal meditation. Made of wood, the shape can be altered according to your need, block the wind, add shade, etc. "

Mindful sex 'the new anti-depressant'

A new group therapy technique from a UBC researcher uses meditation techniques to improve sex.  The discussion here is aimed at women, but I'm sure there are men who could benefit from similar therapies (insert...

Mellow Yellow University

"Sixties pop star Donovan is working on a plan to open a university in Scotland which will concentrate on transcendental meditation.The 'Mellow Yellow' singer says guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi told him to build the...

Eight Indonesian buddhist monks safe in Myanmar

""They are safe because the are in four Buddhist monastries on a meditation," Nyaria Nando Bhikku, a monk of the Sanha Agung Indonesia said at his Legal Aid office in Surabaya said on Tuesday. He made the remark when accompanying three monks from Thailand who gave support to...

Protest with Mindfulness: Acknowledge the Suffering of Others with Compassion.

Thich (teacher) Nhat Hanh (pro: T'ik, Nat, Han,) a Vietnamese monk, wrote about distracted thoughts and spoke about 'focus', and of keeping ones consciousness alive and added "from now on I'll use the term 'mindfulness' to refer to keeping one's...

Raven Williams - Life Empowerment Expert

Raven Williams is a resource devoted to helping people awaken their infinite potential RavenWilliams.com is a socially and environmentally conscious online community portal dedicated...

The Many, Many Faces of Bob Dylan: Toronto Int'l Film Fest

I feel left out: evidently I'm the only one who doesn't get to play Bob Dylan. Which sucks, since for a while there I had the outlaw 'tache and everything. Anyway, the Toronto Film Festival is in full swing."The idea...

The Discussion Continues on the Future of the Jewish People by three Israeli ...

IF you want to hear this podcast please go to ISRAEL SEEN    Menachem Alexenberg Mel Alexenberg is an artist who creates artworks at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. His artworks explore interrelationships between digital age art and...

Meditation: The Key To Business Networking

Buddha would have loved the incongruity of that the business world has discovered meditation as a way of improving earnings. The big fat guy of course preached total poverty for his followers, forcing them to even...

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