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I found this video, “Michael Jackson’s Tulku Found,” pretty entertaining to think about. A tulku is an enlightened Tibetan Buddhist lama who keeps returning to earth to fulfill his boddhisatvic vow to stay around until all beings are free. The Dalai Lama is said to be one. The humorous imlication that MJ is like His…

“I believe in America because we have great dreams–and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”  -Wendell L. Wilkie Click here for more patriotic quotes in celebration of July 4.  Let freedom ring!

Our former Chattering Mind blogger and BFF of Beliefnet Amy Cunningham sent me this incredible video of Amma, or Mata Amritanandamayi, or Ammachi, or the Hugging Saint, embracing all kinds of people all around the world. And Amy wrote: “Everybody keeps saying that no one will surpass Michael Jackson’s celebrity, but if Amma keeps hugging, she’ll…

I’m staring out my window at gusting sheets of horizontal rain. It’s cold. The sky is white. And give or take some precipitory drama, it’s been like this for more than a month. What day is it? Yep, July 2nd. It’s happened, we done did it, we broke the weather. Last week’s New Yorker had…

I’m not sure it’s really anything so grand as kindness, but I cannot kill a mouse. Though I could probably have a mouse killed on my behalf, no problem. Where are the vermin mafia? Can I hire someone who will slip a trap in my kitchen, catch the squeaker, and whisk him away without me…

Are you going to celebrate the 4th of July with a cookout?  If so, I have two questions for you: 1.  What are you making? 2.  What grill are you making it on? I ask because I’m always looking for yummy ways to use the grill, but also because we’re in the market for one…

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. – Jimmy Carter   This is from our gallery of…

I always look forward to the first day of the month because it means one very happy thing–Susan Miller‘s fresh horoscopes on AstrologyZone.com. She’s a truly gifted astrologer who gives in-depth monthly forecasts for each sign. She has a warm, generous way of writing and making you feel like she’s rooting for you–and that the planets…

Inmates at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in the Phillipines, have produced a tribute video to Michael Jackson that’s been viewed on YouTube more than three million times in the last five days. The prison has a program that aims to rehabilitate through teaching choreographed dance. (A very unusual and…

I recently had to have blood drawn, and as per usual with me, the area quickly turned a beautiful shade of black-and-blue.  Just in time for summer! When I went to my acupuncturist a few days later, she gave me a treatment using moxa–a traditional Chinese herb also known by its Harry Potter-esque name mugwort. …
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