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Ten years ago was the height of the stock market boom. Stocks prices went only up. All you had to do was throw money towards Wall Street and a few months later you’re a millionaire. People were getting rich overnight. 14 year old kids turned their allowance money into piles of thousand dollar bills. Easy money.
So I opened an account at an online discount stock broker – 10 minutes. Did research and...
Aside from cassowaries, emus, kakapos, kiwis, nandus, ostriches, penguins, rheas, and a few others (most if not all of which you’ve never even seen around your local neighborhood, right?), the quintessential characteristic of birds is they fly.Why? Why do birds fly? Why are birds along with bats and insects one of the only three life forms which fly?
When you come to think...
Each moment of existence is infinitely wondrous.
What seems like an obtuse spiritual concept at first
Can, with practice and meditation
Become quite accessible.
The result can be almost hallucinatory.
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Why do you think the most advanced sages
Often sound like they’re on drugs?
Beneath the surface talk of chakras and energy flows
And kundalini rising and union with the divine
What’s really...
When Tiger Woods invoked his religious faith during his public apology on Friday, he readily acknowledged that a lot of people would be surprised.
“People probably don’t realize it,” he said, “but I was raised a Buddhist, and I actively practiced my faith from childhood until I drifted away from it in recent years.”
But Woods said his Buddhist faith would be a key part of his...
Have you ever received one of those e-mails where you could feel your emotions rising in response to the note and then you said to yourself “that’s just not right, I’ve got to set them straight.” Your emotion might even rise in proportion to the number of recipients on the e-mail. The more people who received the misperceptions and misstatements by the author of the original note will generally...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Next Week
By HELENE COOPER
President Obama will meet the Dalai Lama at the White House on Feb. 18, Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman, said Thursday.
The meeting, the first between the Tibetan spiritual leader and Mr. Obama since the president was elected, is sure to further fray America’s already tense relations with China. The White House put off meeting with the Dalai...
Many times I have written about the fact that we are living in times of great change. But we are experiencing more than “great” change; we are living at a time of “mythic” change. Deep in our intuitive gut, we can sense a dismantling of our most familiar myths – the myths of our religions, the myths of our nation and others as well, and even the myths of the inevitability of the future of the...
Driving can be stressful, since people can become very impatient, selfish and discourteous when behind the wheel. By applying the principles of Zen, however, you can make driving an enjoyable, relaxing experience, no matter how everyone else is driving. full...
Around any holiday we typically get a rash of Debbie Downer press releases filled with dire health-related warnings, such as: “Don’t let your kids eat any Halloween candy, it will rot their teeth and make them obese!” and “Christmas trees can cause allergies!” Such missives make us wonder if we’re really supposed to enjoy the holidays and special occasions, or just fear...
by Dean Rieck
If you’re like many bloggers, you have (or you’re thinking of developing) products and services to sell to your readers.
Your instinct might be to write the sort of hard sell copy you’ve seen so much of, because you will assume that’s what always works.
But will it? Maybe. Maybe not.
The trouble with hard sell is that it’s overused, it can destroy your credibility, and many...