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...Truths dovetailed with the Hindu scheme of reincarnation: we are reborn again and again, in an endless and wearying cycle called samsara, each life affected by the good and bad deeds performed in previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...
...sustained the Four Noble Truths and the practice of meditation. But Mahayanans saw the Buddha as a divinity to whom prayers could be addressed. They also revered--and hoped to become--bodhisattvas, fully enlightened, Buddha-like beings who had won the right to enter Nirvana but chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster...
...then, as a parade of witnesses testified, along came Lynne Cox, freshly divorced and newly reborn in makeup and contacts and short skirts. She was soon spending more time alone and on the road with her boss, and admits to having an affair with him. Thus were laid out the preconditions for an "alienation of affection" suit, a rare legal recourse for spurned spouses that only a handful of states still recognizes...
...society, and I think that was part of the mentality of the Khmer Rouge when they were massacring people," said Francois Ponchaud, a priest who first went to Cambodia in 1965. "They believed their victims had made errors, political errors, and that killing them would allow them to be reborn as better people in their next lives." Pol Pot has admitted to some mistakes in the period from 1975 to 1979, but in his eyes they were mistakes of policy. About the million dead, he has never expressed any remorse...
...purpose but someone else's gain. At the same time, keep up your love of sports. (I know I hardly have to tell you that.) Sports are about clean victories and perpetual renewals; every old game has a definite end, and every new one is a world reborn. Jogging is nice, but be sure to play something you can win. Winning is nicer...