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...popular among students at Harvard, on the other hand, focus on mindfulness: that is, concentrating on the moment and being aware of what is going on in one’s mind. Though that may sound easy, the actual practice of it is very difficult. Cecile McHardy, a trained lama who teaches meditation on Mondays in the Mather Tranquility Room, ascribes to the average human “a butterfly mind, a monkey mind.” This tendency to flit from subject to thought to subject through free associations can make it quite hard to concentrate deeply...
...follow--some people believe in a God who is quite particular about which religion is right, and by the fourth episode God alludes to having told Noah to build the Ark. But mostly Arcadia espouses the little-c catholicism captured in its credits, which juxtapose images of the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Bob Dylan: as long as you believe there's an answer blowin' in the wind, you're on the side of the angels...
...Terrorism is the worst kind of violence, so we have to check it, we have to take countermeasures." THE DALAI LAMA, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and one of the world's leading nonviolence advocates, suggesting that terrorism might require a violent response...
WORLD BRIEFING A6 The Dalai Lama on work; Beijing's new professor; a portable med lab; and more...
Turns out the Dalai Lama is a typical overachiever. In The Art of Happiness at Work, a follow-up to his best-selling collaboration with psychiatrist Howard Cutler, The Art of Happiness, the Tibetan holy man reveals that his most blissful moment didn't occur in a state of relaxation. It happened when he passed the final exams for his Geshe degree, akin to a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy. Practical achievement should be exhilarating, the Nobel laureate says, as long as work is a calling--whether that calling is to serve others, work in government or provide for a family...