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Buddhist Quote of the Day: Thich Nhat Hanh Says Do Your Dishes Before You Change The World
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Ethan Nichtern
posted by Ethan Nichtern This is one of my all-time favorites quotes, and we discussed it in the Meditation in Everyday Life course last week, part of the awesome Way of Shambhala curriculum. It always brings me back to Earth from grandiose visions, and reminds me that it’s how we perform the simple tasks that…
Would Sid eat meat?
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Lodro Rinzler
Unlike Sid, Lodro’s dog Tillie is a big fan of the turkey by Lodro Rinzler Before Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment at age 35 he was a confused twenty and thirty-something looking to learn how to live a spiritual life. He had an overbearing dad, expectations for what he was supposed to do with his life, drinks were flowing,…
Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2009: What Would Jesus Buy? Heifer International?
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Ethan Nichtern
posted by Ethan Nichtern (for more about IDP, visit the Interdependence Project‘s main website) Welcome to the day of the year with the strangest name: Black Friday 2009. Next comes Cyber Monday 2009. The name feels like an apocalypse, or a shop-ocalypse, as consumption activist and star of one of my favorite holiday movies What…
Thanksgiving Quotes: The Dalai Lama on Precious Human Life
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Ethan Nichtern
posted by Ethan Nichtern (Something to contemplate while basting turkey or tofurkey) A Precious Human Life Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am going to use all my energies…
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