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faith
Laura
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith---of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you---a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable... More »
If you could gain one character trait, what would you pick?
Laura
I keep running across this notion of equanimity in my reading more and more of late. this notion of compassionate acceptance (as opposed to an emotionally barren indifference) is what I most want more of... More »
Buddhism and power in Burma
Laura
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/burma/index.shtml I always enjoy Krista Tippett's weekly public radio show Speaking of Faith but this week's installment was especially compelling for me. The book is Ingrid Jordt's Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the... More »
QAR
August 2008 