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...appreciate any of those things? And if the answer is no, then are we no better off? Are our lives happier, or just easier? In Bhutan, life is shorter but it is infused with meaning and filled with familial love—due in particular to the Buddhist beliefs that permeate every black and white farmhouse...
...MEDITATING? I've been meditating for about 20 years--a kind of Zen Buddhist meditation--and never talked about it because no one understood. And now of course it's become part of our culture, and we see Buddhas in storefront windows. It's weird to me that I do that and happen to be funny. I still can't figure that part out. It's feeling the deep impermanence of life and yet seeing the funny, impermanent side of life. Because it's all a joke. You wanna hang up and not talk to me anymore...
...been sleeping around. That makes his concentration slip a little." Luckily, the modern Olympics give Bhutanese women a chance to do more than warble insults about a man's supposedly wandering wife. As the nation's top female archer, Chhoden, 24, is one of only two athletes representing this Buddhist nation of 600,000 in Athens. Both she and Tashi Peljor, a 26-year-old male archer, are competing in the only sport in which Bhutan has ever fielded athletes at the Olympics...
...sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited as a profound statement of faith, either Buddhist (rebirth), Jewish (acceptance) or Christian (redemption...
...their work also helps them acquire Buddhist merit, improving their Karma. There's a worldly angle, too: their organization posts photographs of crash scenes outside its Bangkok headquarters to remind the public of its good work; the more photos, the greater the income from donations, it seems. Anand, a former deliveryman, says he's never had nightmares resulting from his work despite 19 years in the gruesome...