It is good to abandon what is superfluous, futile, and useless as quickly as possible and not cling to these from force of habit. If I go hiking in the mountain, and midway I find that my packsack is half-filled
Archive du blog pour April 2013
Centennial Celebrations of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s birth
The year 2010 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910—1991), one of the most remarkable spiritual teachers of our time. On this special occasion, Khyentse Rinpoche’s grand son and spiritual heir, Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche is
Better to Help than to Blame.
Blaming someone is an unjustified simplification of a complex human situation. We may disapprove of the actions or the behavior of someone, but that person himself is not ‟useless” or ‟evil.” No one is intrinsically ‟this” or ‟that” within their
An interesting Opinion Poll on Values
In December some members of the Davos World Economic Forum in collaboration with Facebook conducted a poll on ‟values”. The poll was conducted with over 130,000 participants largely through the Internet. Eighty percent of the people polled were under 30
Davos Sound Byte-2
At the Davos World Economic Forum, I also participated in a session on ‟Lessons from the Past to Redesign Future Values” with Jody Williams. She received the Nobel Peace Price in 1997 for relentlessly and successfully campaigning for a United
Davos Sound Byte-1
I attended the recent Davos World Economic Forum as a speaker and was inspired by the voices that called for a greater sense of values and altruism in the world. In the session ‟Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World,” Mohammad
An Illusion of Freedom
‟When you look closely at life in a city, you have the impression that all the facets of individuals’ lives must be defined with great precision, like a screw that has to fit exactly in its hole. In one sense,
Meeting an old friend
A study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), showed that the Arctic tern, whose annual migration is the longest of any animal, travels 70,000 km each year during
A bird view of the Grand Prismatic
Last September, I was lucky enough to be taken on a small plain, early morning above the Grand Prismatic, at the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming
A photographer’s dream
Reincarnation is not the rebirth of a self (end)
In conventional terms, we can talk about an ‟individual” consciousness, even if the individual doesn’t exist as an isolated entity. The fact that there’s no such discontinuous entity being transferred from one life to the next doesn’t mean that there