Can Meditation Slow Down the Aging Process? By Jo Marchant / Mosiac It’s seven in the morning on the beach in Santa Monica, California. The low sun glints off the waves and the clouds are still golden from the dawn. The view stretches out over thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean. In the distance, […]
Arianna Huffington’s 5 Secrets to Thriving at Work 01/16/2016 Carolyn Gregoire, Senior Health & Science Writer, The Huffington Post In the American workplace, we tend to accept stress, burnout, sleep deprivation and 24/7 connectivity as facts of life. So often, we believe that success requires being the last person to leave the office at night, […]
The 5 Most Important Things We Learned About Mindfulness in 2015 12/29/2015 By Carolyn Gregoire, Senior Health & Science Writer, The Huffington Post 2014 may have been the year of the “mindful revolution,” but 2015 proved that mindfulness is here to stay. The more we learn about mindfulness — the cultivation of a focused awareness on the […]
Buddhist Psychological Practices That Can Help Relieve Anxiety Josh Korda Source: Huffington Post Many people use the words fear and anxiety interchangeably, as if they referred to identical emotional states. Yet while we may conceive of the two words as entirely corresponding, the neurobiology is quite different. The physiological reactions that occur when we hear the […]
A Primer on Buddhism: Buddhist Basics The balance between practicing Buddhism and dealing with your current position is a taxing problem. On one hand the situation may be really bad, on the other, really good. Therefore, a helpful paradigm is a plan to deal with any problem. Some helpful things for all times:
Topic: How does merit get transferred to next life Date: 5th January 2001 The logical question to ask with the awareness of death is: what kind of behavior is the most suitable when facing this inevitable death”. In the daily life people buy insurance policies due to fear of disasters, dangers, calamities and losses etc. […]
Topic: Awareness of Death Date: 29th December 2000 In the world there are many beliefs, rituals and practices associated with death and there are many mysteries, myths and stories centered around the phenomena of death. We use the word death often in our daily lives. If our car does not start we’d say the battery […]
Knowing, Understanding and Realization In this age of knowledge, we come across an abundance of knowledge. We create knowledge and abandon knowledge when someone creates or finds new knowledge. Consider the knowledge about food we eat. Few decades ago, based on the then prevailing knowledge, US government constructed a food pyramid. Recently, after researchers generated […]
On Saturday, May 14th a meeting was held at the Vihara under the patronage of Bhante Rahula. Despite inclement weather, a large number of Vihara members were in attendance.