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“Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him.”
“You mean it controls your actions?”
“Partially. But it also obeys your commands.”
—OBI-WAN KENOBI AND LUKE SKYWALKER IN A NEW HOPE
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In the centuries after the Buddha’s death, his followers created rifts and various Buddhist schools—Theravada and Mahayana being just two of the biggest divisions—each claiming to be the authentic one. The Zen tradition (or Chan as it is known in China) officially formed when one school traveled, via the South Indian monk named...
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Meditation is called the Great Teacher. It is the cleansing crucible fire that works slowly but surely, through understanding. The greater your understanding, the more flexible and tolerant, the more compassionate you can be. You become like a perfect parent or an ideal teacher. You...
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Jesus proclaimed: “To believe in me, is not to believe in me but in him who sent me; to see me, is to see him who sent me. I have come into the world as light, so that no one who has faith in me should remain in darkness. But if anyone hears my words and disregards them, I am not his judge; I have not come to...
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After we purchased the land for our monastery in we were broke. We were in debt. There were no buildings on the land, not even a shed. Those first few weeks we slept not on beds but on old doors we had bought cheaply from the salvage yard; we raised them on bricks at each corner to lift them off the ground. (There were no...
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More than two years had passed now since the Chinese entered Lhasa. In China they were making preparations for the National People’s Congress to frame a new constitution, which was to allot ten seats for Tibet. The Chinese extended an invitation to His...
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