One of the most difficult but necessary skills we need to develop as meditators is learning how to be judicious without being judgmental. An as a preliminary step to developing that skill, it’s good to reflect on the difference beween the two. Being judgmental is basically an effort to get rid of something we don’t [...]
Let me be authentic, and engage from my heart. Despite human beings’ competitive nature over scarce resources, they do care for one another. In 1991, Somalia had descended into a disastrous civil war, and people were running anywhere they could to seek safety. We made an attempt to escape the conflict once before, and ended [...]
Meditation is only one of the many qualities that is emphasized. It’s a very important one because we have to understand our mind, and we can only understand our mind by looking at it. But to be a well-balanced practitioner and reach our aim of being a totally integrated and realized being, we must develop [...]
Let me be frank, I was born to be nobody. It appeared that I was destined to always stay destitute. Ironically, the day I was born, many people, family, friends, and tribal affiliates, celebrated as I was the first boy in my family. The day had a special meaning because my father was the only [...]
J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Text as delivered follows. Copyright of JK Rowling, June 2008 [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –– She is amazing her doctors, the 16-year-old choir girl who came close to dying but wouldn’t in the crumbled concrete graveyard of Port-au-Prince. More than two weeks after the earthquake brought down her school — and a day after she was lifted from the ruins — Darlene Etienne was eating yogurt, talking and [...]
Naqsha Bibi, 40, was recovered alive from the debris of a collapsed house in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 10 December. The unexpected rescue came more than two months after the 8 October earthquake destroyed large parts of Indian and Pakistan-administered Kashmir and northern areas in Pakistan. Naqsha Bibi, now under hospital treatment, is suffering from muscle [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Saturday, July 15, 1995— Rescuers pulled a 19-year-old woman from the rubble of a department store Saturday, 16 days after the building collapsed and killed at least 300 people. The condition of the woman, Park Sung Hyun, 19, was not immediately clear. “I can’t believe that this is real,” her brother told [...]
A 24-year-old man has been rescued alive from the rubble of a ruined hotel in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, 11 days after the earthquake. It came hours after Haiti’s government declared a formal end to the search for survivors. Onlookers cheered as Wismond Exantus – smiling and apparently in a good condition – emerged on a [...]
Be HUMAN STORY Once upon time, a King placed a boulder on a roadway. Then he hid himself behind a large tree trunk just to watch and see if anyone would remove that huge rock from there. Even some of the King’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it and went [...]