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The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, began in London, United Kingdom on 27 July and will continue until 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stages in women’s football, began two days earlier, on 25 July. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees…[Read more]

The method followed by the Mo-Pai is millenia-old and very effective. You begin by filling up the body’s “energy warehouse” with solar energy, in Chinese, yang ch’i. This warehouse, the dantien (elixir field), is located four fingers below the navel. If you imagine this energy centre as a sphere, you could assume that it would be empty at Level…[Read more]

The four immeasurables are:
1.Loving-kindness (Pâli: metta, Sanskrit: maitri) towards all: the hope that a person will be well; “the wish that all sentient beings, without any exception, be happy.”
2.Compassion (Pâli and Sanskrit: karuṇâ): the hope that a person’s sufferings will diminish; “the wish for all sentient beings to be free from su…[Read more]

Tsujigiri (Þy”ؤê or Þy”Ø tsuji-giri, literally ‘crossroads killing’) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana sword or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during nighttime. The practit…[Read more]

Varna is a Sanskrit term varṇa (वर्ण) is derived from the root vṛ, meaning “to cover, to envelop” (compare vṛtra). Derived meanings include “kind, sort, character, quality”. Contemporary students of Hindu society understand Varna as an ancient fourfold arrangement of socioeconomic categories called the varnas, which is traced back to an oral…[Read more]

The Buddhist hermeneutic thus grew out of and has always been
controlled by the tradition’s soteriological needs. The
discussion of intention and motivation (abhisamdhi,abhipraya)
so common in these texts must always be understood in this
context: for the scholastics of the Buddhist tradition, true
understanding of a sutra’s…[Read more]

Buddhism, which extends its influence throughout Asia from Sri Lanka to Japan, has 360 million followers. Although it is an offspring of Hinduism, it has no caste system. Life is seen as filled with suffering, with achieving nirvana-a spiritual state marked by absence of desire-as the solution. The emphasasis in Buddhism is on spiritual…[Read more]

Some of you may know the solution to the riddle, either because you have read it somewhere or because you have figured it out. Some of you in fact will have realized that there are two solutions to the riddle. The solutions are these: First you must take the sheep across the river, then you return and get the wolf and bring it across. The key to…[Read more]

Shia Time begins: once the sun has crossed the celestial meridian (true noon), exactly halfway between sunrise and sunset. This is when the sun is at the highest point in the sky.
Time ends: before the time it takes to recite the daily Asr prayer (afternoon prayer), a little before sunset.
Sunni Time begins: once the sun has crossed the…[Read more]

Definition of BLUES: low spirits, melancholy
-http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/blues

Kabbalah Centre teaches the Kabbalistic concept of Klippot. The idea is that everyone has a direct and clear connection to the upper metaphysical-spiritual world of the Light (Ein Sof, unbounded God), but that this channel is blocked by Klippot,…[Read more]

There is an ancient riddle which has taken many forms in different places. This tale, which originated with the Kwajigan, the Masters of Wisdom, in the eleventh century: a man wishes to cross a river with three things; a wolf, a sheep and a cabbage. The man has access to a small boat, with a capacity for only himself and one other thing. How does…[Read more]

The Anthropocene is a recent and informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems. The term was coined by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer but has been widely popularized by the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen,…[Read more]

In the classical presentation of the longevity exercise, the student is instructed at this point to exhale completely and hold the lungs empty for as long as comfortable. This is analogus to “running the carburetor lean” on an automobile and is designed to burn off toxins and impurities that may have accumulated in the lungs during normal…[Read more]

The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different traditions, ranging from panpsychism and animism to traditional and organized religious views, as well as secular and materialist philosophies. Most agree that minds are constituted by conscious experience and intelligent thought. Common attributes of mind include…[Read more]

Recapitulation is a term used by Carlos Castaneda in his book, The Eagle’s Gift, published in 1982. In The Eagle’s Gift, Florinda, one of don Juan’s party of warriors, teaches Castaneda about the process and purpose of recapitulation. She explained that recapitulation consisted of “recollecting one’s life down to the most insignificant detail”…[Read more]

If I am allowed to answer, I would say that there is not any kind of value, in the end, in basing one’s decision what one’s conscience says.

The Urantia Book and Quran only teach Fear of God.

>>>there is only the experience of a soul collective leading back to origin… and the positives and negatives of form and process>>>

Very…[Read more]

…but even that would pale compared to the impact a bizarre religious cult would have on the reputation of Japanese cops. Over the course of several months in 1995, the Aum Supreme Truth sect almost single-handedly destroyed the great sense of security that japanese so treasured about their society. In March that year, Aum grabbed world world…[Read more]

According to legend, Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie (c. 2650 BC), a bureaucrat under the legendary Yellow Emperor. There are quite a few variations of the legend. One of them tells that Cangjie was hunting on Mount Yangxu in modern Shanxi when he saw a tortoise whose veins caught his curiosity. Inspired by the possibility of a logical…[Read more]

Anthony Cave Brown’s book, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, states:
Menzies had known that Turing was a practicing and aggressive homosexual; this had emerged soon after his employment at Bletchley. But since he caused no offence to his colleagues at Bletchley, and since he was perhaps the only man in…[Read more]

Wu wei (Chinese: 無爲; a variant and derivatives: traditional Chinese: 無為; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wú wéi; Japanese: 無為; Korean: 무위; Vietnamese: Vô vi) is an important concept of Taoism (Daoism), that involves knowing when to act and when not to act. Another perspective to this is that “Wu Wei” means natural action – as planets revolve aro…[Read more]