April 2010
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“That is all that the Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachers do: they simply point out....”
– from Mind Beyond Death by the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Podcasts - Philosophy - Thought and Experience -... →
This album contains fascinating and engrossing interviews with several leading philosophers concerning, primarily, the exploration of four topics: emotion; thought and language; imagination and creativity; consciousness. The interviews contain lively debates from differing philosophical viewpoints, discussions about theoretical thought experiments and the examination of theories developed by...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
Beware of the Coming Economic Era | Integral Life →
Your economic stability is critical to your personal development.  Building a solid personal financial foundation is similar to cleaning out the psychological shadow from the basement: either one can be sand upon which you try to build an integral life and causes it to unexpectedly crash later.  Lately in the United States and Europe (though Greece is not helping) we’ve been feeling a very real...
Apr 29th
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Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts →
Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.
Apr 29th
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Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar: Xi Wangmu and... →
We do not know precisely how or when medicine, as a formal discipline, was first practiced in the region of the world we now call Tibet, so we can only speculate. Tibet’s earliest physician was likely a shaman: what the Indians called gSan-wa-pa—secret ones. The oral traditions of Tibetan medicine, as we now understand it, probably began when the shamanic role became institutionalized in ancient...
Apr 29th
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Jesus and Buddha, their sayings compared; Or,... →
It is sincerely hoped that by reading these few short parallel sayings, that it may awaken in you a desire to know more; and a realization of the common ground between not just these two, but of all the world’s many religious traditions. 
Apr 29th
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ListenCreative Life: Living “The Code” part...
Apr 29th
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1TO8 →
A Brief Guide to the teachings of the Buddha, as told by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Apr 29th
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Apr 27th
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Unfettered Mind - Levels of Refuge  →
In what do you take refuge? Is it external sources, internal understanding, direct experience or all the above? 
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Graphic-ExchanGE - a selection of graphic projects →
As a graphic designer, I am always looking for new inspiration. I just found a Treasure House!
Apr 27th
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5 Powerful Forces That Are Keeping You From... →
Are you a lifelong learner? I’m betting that your answer to that question is a resounding ‚”Yes, of course!‚” But here’s an important follow-up question: Are you always a successful lifelong learner? Do you always achieve the learning goals you set for yourself? Why do we get stuck in ‘learning ruts’? Here are five powerful – and often hidden – forces that can hold us back in spite of our desire...
Apr 26th
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Whatever isn’t in the Constitution is left for the... →
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Seemingly so simple, but these twenty-eight words have been constantly misconstrued, circumvented, or flat out ignored. So what?  It’s just a bunch of old-school rhetoric spewed out by some powdered-wig sporting fundamentalists over two...
Apr 26th
“We reproduce catastrophe because we ourselves are traumatized - both as a...”
– David Watson - The Pathology of Civilization, Against the Megamachine (via commondense) (via poortaste) (via ledgergermane)
Apr 26th
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Daniel Dennett Podcast - the 'Culture as Operating... →
taichisageblog: Joe says: A fellow student turned me on to this. Select the last episode, “Consciousness Explained” an interview with Daniel Dennett, and play it (requires Flash). About 22 minutes in, he explains “…as if culture installs in us a different kind of operating system”. (We’ve run into Dennett before with his thoughts on belief systems…) Yet, the notion of cultures as...
Apr 25th
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TaiChi Sage Blog: Renewable Energies - Human &... →
It has been a quiet time here as we move on into Fall, and with that it is a good time of year to give renewed attention to our energy. Here are several links that have shown up recently having to do with our own body and the global body we are part of. “Strange! Humans Glow in Visible…
Apr 25th
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scopely asked: Hi there,
great to read your blog. A wonderful image of Guru Rinpoche but isn't the mantra of Guru Rinpoche "om ah hung vajra (pronounced benza) guru pema siddhi hung. I hope you don't mind me asking.
Apr 25th
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Sangngak: The Ngakpa Tradition  →
The Ngakpa Tradition   Tsewong Rinpoche and Lama Pema Tenzin are masters of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, trained in the Ngakpa traditions since early childhood. Their goal is to bring these teachings and practices to the West in an accessible form, adapted to daily life. Lama Jinpa is a Western yogi and healer that acts as Rinpoche’s translator to link these ancient teachings to a...
Apr 25th
The Standing Post: Dream the Great Dream →
Dreaming is something every human can do and because it is such an important altered state of consciousness various cultures over time have invented ways to hack this state for prognostication, divine help, healing and spiritual enlightenment. Anything is possible in this here, this royal road to…
Apr 25th
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Guru Rinpoche Tsok Day →
Dedicating the merit of today’s practice to world peace and pacification of afflication and disease.   The Meaning of Tsok All practices on the path to buddhahood are methods for gathering the accumulations of merit and wisdom and for purifying our obscurations. These two processes of accumulation and purification go hand in hand; as we accumulate more merit and wisdom, our obscurations...
Apr 24th
Apr 24th
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Künzang Gongpa Zangthal Transmission →
Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche said that Rinpoche would bestow the entire wang (abhishekas) and lung (reading transmissions) of Künzang Gongpa Zangthal.
Apr 24th
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ListenGrok and Awe Nourish Yourself Thursday Talk...
Apr 23rd