Word: buddhists
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...million has become so desperate that an impoverished populace may feel that it has little choice but to take to the streets again. Although many prominent activists either have been arrested or are on the run, demonstrations continue to break out like spores across the nation. Significantly, Buddhist monks have marched by the hundreds in several cities, adding a stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement in this deeply devout country. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders in the city of Sittwe whose alleged crime was to offer...
...food to transportation costs soaring. Four days later, former student leaders from the '88 era organized a series of rallies in Rangoon, which drew hundreds of supporters. Even with most activists now locked up or on the run, demonstrations have continued to break out like spores across the nation. Buddhist monks have marched by the hundreds in several cities, adding a stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement. University students have gathered, too, along with sidelined politicians and even some farmers. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders...
...which integrates nature into psychotherapy, based on the idea that a connection to nature benefits and inspires the human mind - have been knocking around mental-health circles since the early 1990s. But recent and increasing fears of global warming have given the discipline new momentum. At Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired liberal arts college in Boulder, Colo., Jed Swift has been leading a master's program in ecopsychology for the past four years. In the past three months alone, he has received 100 inquiries into the two-year program, which currently has 14 students. The emphasis of the program...
...there was more. Boutique stores will reign. Bracelets will be huge. Buddhist symbols and peace signs will be popular. Men will carry handbags. Sunglasses companies will extend their brand to clothes and handbags. I was pleased to learn that the next two years are going to bring a lot more cleavage. "A natural bosom kind of thing. Like Jennifer Love Hewitt." Sometimes visions come with plugs for the TV show you get paid...
...movement becomes an unlikely form of extended stillness. I asked a Buddhist monk not long ago (a contemporary Buddhist monk, who takes 75 flights in a year) what he did to keep himself centered and at peace through all these transits. "I look out the window of the plane," he said. "Up there I don't have to do anything. I watch the clouds, the blue sky behind. Really, a plane can be a beautiful way of taking a retreat...