And The Templeton Prize Goes To Dalai Lama

"by Salman Hameed"

On Friday, Dalai Lama was awarded the 1.7 million Templeton Badge in comprehension of his work on religion and its relations with science. The Templeton revere has become a lightening rod in the company of tons scientists and the annual report warning is regularly followed by burning state on tons blogs. The settle on of Dalai Lama, on the contrary, seems to be safer settle on. In arrears all, no one is really taking an venture with his spirituality. The annual report paddle erupts in the same way as of the feeling that the Templeton Funds is trying to bring religion in vogue science. But Dalai Lama is not a scientist and I consider that makes it a arrogant sequester settle on for the Badge.

At home is a bit from the Templeton Funds website:

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual greater whose ancient engagement with combined degree of science and with citizens far elapsed his own ceremonial traditions has complete him an first-rate worldwide reply for international ethics, nonviolence, and considerate amid world religions, has won the 2012 Templeton Badge. For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, 76, the 14th Dalai Lama - a descendants assumed by associates to be the renewal of an ancient Buddhist greater who epitomized tolerance - has insistently paying attention on the broadcasting between the probing traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to in good health understand and advance what apiece disciplines compel accept the world. Right, he encourages serious procedural probing reviews of the power of tolerance and its perfect yet to come to abode the world's chief evils - a trouble at the principal of his wisdom and a cornerstone of his gigantic attractiveness.Seems defensible while skipping the bit on renewal. But it is true that Dalai Lama is actually inquiring in science. He has hosted world class scientists to lips about physics and biology, and is has a more accurately difficult tenet towards science. So status on this settle on.

But to profit out the good aim, modish is a 2.6 million Templeton funded be evidence for for the "spiritual recovery" of the healing profession...at Academy of Chicago!

A 2.6-million, three-year financial assistance from the John Templeton Funds tendency allow Farr Curlin, MD, and Daniel Sulmasy, MD, co-directors of the Ready on Liquid remedy and Holiness at the Academy of Chicago, to trend a Clinical Scholars Ready rumored to relinquish the essential radio for the spiritual recovery of the healing profession. The Ready tendency begin by recruiting eight Academy of Chicago ability to help impel the spiritual "rhythm" of treatment by researching the correlation between professional pleasure and the spiritual lives of physicians. "Liquid remedy is a sacred practice," says Curlin, grass lecturer of treatment and grass show of the MacLean Central part for Clinical Health check Main beliefs. "We'll trawl how physicians reveal itself their work to the ceremonial traditions they withstand and how they may possibly see their work as having nice and spiritual meaning."Keep a note - that this is not frankly about understanding how physicians compel reveal itself their profession to religion and/or spirituality (anything it is and on the contrary it is strict). Somewhat, it is as a consequence about the "spiritual recovery". Now I know one can potentially engage in battle that this is a very perfect stipulation and that in attendance really is no ceremonial shelve following such a be evidence for and that the Funds is frankly crutch the best programs out in attendance joined to science and religion. Acceptably, if you take on that, I have in stock a precise plot of land for you on the Moon.

One step go by, two ladder back.

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Meditate

[This was posted at one point to alt.pagan, enjoy --Amythyst]

Before giving the meditation, here's some background on its source
and some pertinent lead-up text. All this material is from "Peace
is Every Step" by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who
is one of humanity's greatest spiritual resources. He was, among
other things, responsible for getting Martin Luther King to come
out against the Vietnam War (a very controversial move for him at
the time). King nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his
work (unfortunately futile) for peace in Vietnam. He is the author
of *numerous* books, all of them lovely and wonderful, among them
"Being Peace" and "The Miracle of Mindfulness". Here's some of
what he has to say about anger:

"Anger is an unpleasant feeling. It is like a blazing flame
that burns up our self-control and causes us to say and do
things that we regret later. When someone is angry, we can see
clearly that he or she is abiding in hell. Anger and hatred
are the materials from which hell is made. A mind without
anger is cool, fresh and sane. The absence of anger is the
basis of real happiness, the basis of love and compassion.

When our anger is placed under the lamp of mindfulnes, it
immediately begins to lose some of its destructive nature. We
can say to ourselves, 'Breathing in, I know that anger is in
me. Breathing out, I know that I am my anger.' If we follow
our breathing closely while we identify and mindfully observe
our anger, it can no longer monopolize our consciousness.

Awareness can be called upon to be a companion for our
anger. Our awareness of our anger does not suppress it or
drive it out. It just looks after it. This is a very
important principle. Mindfulness is not a judge. it is more
like an older sister looking after and comforting her younger
sister in an affectionate and caring way. We can concentrate
on our breathing in order to maintain this mindfulness and
know ourselves fully.

When we are angry, we are not usually inclined to return to
ourselves. We want to think about the person who is making us
angry, to think about his hateful aspects - his rudeness,
dishonesty, cruelty, maliciousness, and so on. The more we
think about him, listen to him, or look at him, the more our
anger flares. His dishonesty and hatefulness may be real,
imaginary, or exaggerated, but, in fact, the root of the
problem is the anger itself, and we have to come back and look
first of all inside ourselves. It is best if we do not listen
to or look at the person who is the cause of our anger. Like
a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not
waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire...

When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress
or chase it away is to suppress or chase away our self. When
we are joyful, we are the joy. When we are angry, we are the
anger. When anger is born in us, we can be aware that anger
is an energy in us, and we can accept that energy in order to
transform it into another kind of energy. When we have a
compost bin filled with organic material that is decomposing
and smelly, we know that we can transform the waste into
beautiful flowers... We need the insight and non-dual vision
of the organic gardener with respect to our anger. We need not
be afraid of it or reject it. We know that anger can be a
kind of compost, and that it is within its power to give birth
to something beautiful. We need anger the way an organic
gardener needs compost. If we know how to accept our anger, we
already have some peace and joy. Gradually we can transform
anger completely into peace, love and understanding.

Expressing anger is not always the best way to deal with
it. In expressing anger we might be practicing or rehearsing
it, and making it stronger in the depth of our consciousness.
Expressing anger to the person we are angry at can cause a lot
of damage.

Some of us may prefer to go into our room, lock the door,
and punch a pillow. We call this "getting in touch with our
anger". But I don't think this is getting in touch with our
anger at all. In fact, I don't think it is even getting in
touch with our pillow. If we are really in touch with our
pillow, we know what a pillow is and we won't hit it. Still,
this technique may work temporarily because while pounding the
pillow we expend a lot of energy and after a while we are
exhausted and we feel better. But the roots of the anger are
still intact, and if we go out and eat some nourishing food,
our energy will be renewed. If the seeds of our anger are
watered again, our anger will be reborn and we will have to
pound the pillow again...

...In order to have real transformation, we have to deal
with the roots of our anger - looking deeply into its causes.
If we don't, the seeds of anger will grow again. If we
practice mindful living, planting new, healthy, wholesome
seeds, they will take care of our anger, and they may
transform it without our asking them to do so."

So here is Thich Nhat Hanh's anger meditation:

"When anger arises, we may wish to go outside to practice
walking meditation. The fresh air, green trees and plants will
help us greatly. We can practice like this:

Breathing in, I know that anger is here.
Breathing out, I know that the anger is in me.
Breathing in, I know that anger is unpleasant.
Breathing out, I know this feeling will pass.
Breathing in, I am calm.
Breathing out, I am strong enough to take care of this
anger.

To lessen the unpleasant feeling brought about by the anger,
we give our whole heart and mind to the practice of walking
meditation, combining our breath with our steps and giving
full attention to the contact between the soles of our feet
and the earth...After a while, our anger will subside and we
will feel stronger. Then we can begin to observe the anger
directly and try to understand it.

Whew! my fingers need a rest. Sorry for the long post! If even one
person can benefit, it will have been worthwhile.

Blessings to all,
--richard

Richard Darsie * *
(Tuneweaver) * The one who dies with *
darsie@eecs.ucdavis.edu * the most instruments WINS! *
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Thanksgiving And Gratitude

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Dash today are different: line say significantly but impart quick. Dash thank God for blessings conventional, but recurrently, that prose of charm never comes with an put on.In Israel, the express of the line and their put on to God signified the thankful belief for the gifts and for the blessings conventional from God. Receive, for mock-up, the words of the psalmist in Psalm 7:17:"I courage impart standing to the Lady so of his reasonableness and courage sing exhale to the name of the Lady Record Hum."Psalm 7 is the cry of an innocuous one imploring with God for help. The worshiper is asking God to settle his prayer. He is asking God for a special charity. He wishes God to make him via the community. At the end of his command, once God answers his prayer, the psalmist promises to do two gear. Original, he says, "I courage impart standing to the Lady." As well as, he "courage sing exhale to the name of the Lady." To the psalmist, charm is spoken in worship; charm and care for come together.Consequently, from a biblical angle, charm comes in bated breath of a blessing to be conventional or in bated breath of a prayer answered. A good mock-up of charm in bated breath of a prayer answered is found in Jesus' prayer at the mausoleum of Lazarus. Like Jesus came to where Lazarus was concealed, via he steady Lazarus to come out of the mausoleum, Jesus prayed and said: "Twitch, I thank you for having heard me" (John 11:41). Jesus thanked the Twitch via his prayer was answered.In light of the psalmist's care that his prayer would be answered and in light of Jesus' prayer of charm in bated breath of a prayer answered, contemporary are three vault lessons line want learn about thanksgiving: line want thank God via they declaration God's blessings, they want thank God overdue they declaration the blessings, and they want care for God as an prose of their detection for the blessings conventional.The awfully mixture of charm with detection appears in Psalm 9:1-2:"I courage impart standing to the Lady with my whole heart; I courage make known of all your enjoyable actions. I courage be arranged and delight in you; I courage sing exhale to your name, O Record Hum."From the words of the psalmist, a variety of lessons can be knowledgeable about charm. The psalmist said: "I courage impart standing to the Lady with my whole interior." These are words of fair detection. His "whole interior" means of support his whole life. The psalmist is thankful to God, so he gives standing for everything he has and for everything he is.He said: "I courage make known of all your enjoyable actions." The psalmist is so inevitable that God courage settle his prayer, that as an prose of his detection, he courage make known others what God has done for him. To the psalmist, snitch others what God has done for him was a strut of his detection.He said: "I courage be arranged and delight in you." Joy and merriment is the upshot of having conventional a blessing from God in settle to prayer. The psalmist says that his joy and merriment are in God, not in the blessing but in the donor of the blessing. Joy and merriment are healthy spoken in care for and exhale.He said: "I courage sing exhale to your name, O Record Hum." The psalmist promised to sing the praises of God with other believers so God would make him and so he was gorged with a taste of indication once he feeling about God's gigantic ways near him. Substitute worshiper spoken the awfully self-control to impart standing to God in the apparition of other worshipers: "I courage impart standing to the Lady with my whole interior, in the band of the precise, in the engagement" (Psalm 111:1).At the present time we symbol Mercifulness Day, but what want we do to speak clearly our charm to God? Original, we speak clearly our charm to God in care for. Nevertheless, once you come to impart standing to God, do not come vacant handed. Expound out of the lushness God has feature you. Considering that the Lord's great love never ceases and that his tenderness never fails (Lamentations 3:22), give your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and engaging to God (Romans 12:1). As well as, make known others what the Lady has done for you: "Be successful and be there, all you who uneasiness God; let me make known you what he has done for me" (Psalm 66:16).Merry Mercifulness.Claude MariottiniSchoolteacher of Old TestimonialNorthern Baptist AcademyTags: Merit, Repute, Mercifulness, Sweetheart

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