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1 day ago by Michael James www.happinessofbeing.com

A friend recently wrote to me asking: I’ve got a question concerning atma-vichara in relation to some meditation techniques. Before I came across Sri Bhagavan's teachings I practised some form of Buddhist meditation which is called ‘ metta’ or loving-kindness meditation. In this meditation one devel ...

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6 days ago by Jim Knutsen

We are who we are as the sum of two defining traits: our “otherness” and our relationships. Where one sets us apart, the other binds us together. I am my father’s son and my son’s father, distinct from each in thoughts, loves and talents, yet welcomed and loved by both. When my otherness is held in ...

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8 days ago by Michael James www.happinessofbeing.com

As I had intimated in several of my recent articles, today I have uploaded the following four new e-books to the Books section of my website: An e-book copy of the English translation by Sri Sadhu Om and Michael James of Sri Arunachala Stuti Panchakam. An e-book copy of the English translation by Sr ...

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11 days ago by Betsy

A friend posted this picture of me on Facebook. It was taken at her wedding about a year ago. I cannot remember the exact moment, and I certainly had no idea anyone was memorializing it, but there I am, seemingly having a grand old time. It got me thinking about how I move through life. I am often h ...

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13 days ago by mike

Reports in the early morning have been flooding in with sightings of the late medium and stock car racer The Great Bryanzara. Murdered earlier this year by Joey the Face Knife Mangler (aka Joseph Thy Face, aka Grim Vendetta, aka Robot Roundabout, aka The Bread Crumb Bandit, aka Barnabus the Rigid, a ...

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13 days ago by marialauraconte

“Oasis is called to an exploration of the role of traditions in the time of the mestizaje of civilisations as a place of the inevitable interpretation of every faith. These interpretations are the subject of a continual narrative and dialogue between the subjects that live in our plural societies. W ...

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14 days ago by Andrea

A few weeks ago I was sitting in my favorite quiet space on campus, reading from a rather zaftig anthology, when a girl from one of my classes came up to me and asked a question I wasn’t expecting. She said, “Why do you have those braces on your legs, are you a CP?” Now, make no mistake. In my day I ...

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16 days ago by Katrina Bishop

As Th!nk About It is over and I now have a job, it is unlikely that I will be posting much – at all – anymore. I can only apologise to the (two) people eagerly anticipating the third, fourth and fifth parts to Broadcast Bingo that are destined never to happen. Indeed, as I have repeatedly said, this ...

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21 days ago by Nancy

Preaching this morning using the text on the anointing of David by Samuel from 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13, I said, in part: We are all David. How many of you have ever said or done anything you've regretted? How many of you have ever done anything you weren't very proud that you'd done? How many of you ha ...

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21 days ago by Michael James www.happinessofbeing.com

In continuation of my previous article, Upadesa Undiyar – an explanatory paraphrase, the following is the second of seven extracts from the introductory page that I have drafted for Sri Ramanopadesa Noonmalai: உள்ளது நாற்பது ( Ulladu Narpadu), the ‘Forty [Verses] on That Which Is’, is a Tamil poem t ...

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