Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such as the famous query "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The late-blooming Soka Gakkai practice, favored by Tina Turner, is also nominally a Japanese Mahayana offshoot, although rather atypical in its teaching that the repetition of a four-word phrase, translatable as "Devotion to the mystic law of the Lotus Sutra [scripture]," can gain adherents happiness and material amenities in this world...
...beguiling lies from too many plausible liars and improbable truth tellers. He also lived through about 25 years of his own life doing all this, so that the Shoumatoff who finished the book is not the same fellow who started it. (He admits to beginning as a young semi-mystic in search of the Other, and to becoming a middleaged householder wistfully attempting golf...
...areas of Brazil, he has done little to track the long-term effects of his procedure. Surgeons in Brazil were no more eager than most American doctors to accept Batista's claims. "When I first heard of this procedure, I thought he was a crank, one of those mystic doctors who periodically appear in Brazil," says Roberto Franken, a Sao Paulo cardiologist who has only recently accepted Batista's procedure. Critics do not bother Batista, though, because he believes so strongly in what he is doing. "Either I'm crazy or they are wrong," he says. "And I know...
...Mystic Lake was the site of the 15th Hood Trophy regatta-a two-day, 20-team event that drew skippers from as far away as Cambridge... England (they came in 18th...
Moreover, Mystic Lake-Tufts home site-is known for having very flat water and the mild breeze Saturday did not change that perception. Tufts, being used to this, may have carried a bit of a home-water advantage...