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...debut of a TV movie called Camp Cucamonga. Although it boasted a cast with the likes of DJ Tanner, Steve Urkel, and Winnie and Paul from The Wonder Years, one star clearly outshone the rest: a young Jennifer Aniston “Wait!” you object. “I’ve seen that movie ten times and Jennifer Aniston is not in it.” So sorry, my friend, but that’s her as camp counselor Eva Schector. It’s an easy mistake to make; after all, it?...
...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 on any one thing. In some meditation techniques, you are supposed to constantly return to the object of concentration, such as breathing, while in others you are simply supposed to be aware of the path your butterfly mind is taking...
After Mikhail Gorbachev laid the final blows to Soviet Communism, who’s going to stop him from laying a few harmless smooches on the cheek of a pretty woman? Not Miranda L. Kobritz, a Divinity School student who found herself the object of the former Soviet president’s affections last month while riding an elevator with him at a hotel in New York City...
...some doctors have described as a vegetative state. For the past six years her husband Michael has been battling her parents for the right to remove her feeding tube and allow her to die. Michael Schiavo says he knows this is what his wife would have wanted. Her parents object because they say she is still showing signs of awareness. On Oct. 15 an appeals court sided with him, and the feeding tube was removed. But last week, after Florida Governor Jeb Bush intervened, it was replaced. Ultimately, the decision will probably be made by the supreme court of Florida...
...essence of meditation is nowness ... [it] is not aimed at achieving a higher state or at following some theory or idea, but simply, without any object or ambition, trying to see what is here and now. -Chogyam Trungpa...