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		<title>Dharma in Popular Music:  Brian Wilson, Love and Mercy</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=3128</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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I was sittin' in a crummy movie
With my hands on my chin
all the violence that occurs
Seems like we never win

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was lying in my room
And the news came on TV
A lotta people out there hurtin'
And it really scares me

Love and...]]></description>
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		<title>Altruism and the Human Genome</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2350</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have long disputed the genetic basis of altruism.  The concept of kin selection suggests altruistic behaviors favor  the survival of close relatives of the affected individual, and thus survival of many of the same genes.  Thus familial altruism is actually genetic self interest.  In the 1930&#8217;s J.B.S. Haldane said that, &#8220;I would lay...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;My religion is kindness.&#8221;    -Dalai Lama</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=3050</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My religion is very simple.  My religion is kindness.&#8221; -Dalai Lama


&#8220;There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.&#8221;  -Dalai Lama


			
				
			
		
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		<title>Have you built your ship of death, O have you?</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=3009</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Dalai Lama, death is neither good nor bad, but an inevitable part of life. Therefore preparation is imperative. &#8220;The Readiness is all.&#8221; as Hamlet stoically reasoned.  The Dalai Lama explains the necessity of building a Ship of Death:
 &#8220;Death will definitely come.  If you spend your life overly concerned with the temporary...]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Initiates Dialogue with Neuroscientist</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2949</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1992, instead of just wondering why science had long ignored the positive mental states promoted in Buddhism, the Dalai Lama invited University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson to his residence in exile in Dharamsala India.  His Holiness asked the scientist to participate in a study of the brain  function and mental activity of...]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Buddha:  Parallel Verses, On Humility</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2874</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Training the Mind: Verse 2: Whenever I  interact with someone,  May I view myself as the   lowest amongst all, And, from the very depths  of my heart,   Respectfully hold others as superior.
 Philippians 2:3-5:  Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Care about them as much...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Stay In Your Own Religion and Meditate.&#8221;    -Dalai Lama</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2840</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buddhism teaches respect and tolerance for other religions and speaking ill of anyone for their philosophy or religion is a transgression of the Dharma.  Not only does the Dalai Lama respect other faiths, he doesn&#8217;t seek converts.  His Holiness states, “People from different traditions should keep their own, rather than change.”
To a man who asked...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma In Popular Music:  Bobby Blue Bland</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2791</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Samyutta                Nikaya states: 
 &#8220;According                  to the seed that’s sown,
So is the fruit you reap there from,
Doer of good will gather...]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Buddha:  The Parallel Sayings, &#8220;Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2751</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
“Put your sword back in place; for those who take the  sword will perish by the sword.”    -Matthew 26.52
“Abandoning the taking of life, the ascetic Gautama  dwells refraining from taking life, without stick or sword.”    -Digha  Nikaya 1.1.8
&#8220;He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus and Bhudda:  The Parallel Sayings, &#8220;Love Your Enemies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2730</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you;&#8221;  Matthew 5:44

&#8220;Hatreds do not cease in this world by hating, but by love, overcoming evil by good.  Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth.&#8221;    Dhammapada 1.5...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma In Popular Music:  The Evernow</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2693</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Isness Is My Business.&#8221;   -J. T. Henry 
Isness is the state of being fully present, in the moment, aware,  unattached, mindful, awakened, and in the evernow.  Liz Mitten Ryan writes in  Sabbatical:  Resting in the Miraculous Power of Isness , &#8220;Isness just   is — it exists for all time, in all...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma In Popular Music:  Memphis Slim</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2483</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life, as an impermanent phenomenon, is subject to the suffering of change.  John Len Chapman (aka Memphis_Slim )  lays down the bare facts about Impermanence and the great democracy of death in his song, Mother Earth. 

Mother Earth
You can high hat me all the time.
You may never go my way.
But Mother Earth is laying...]]></description>
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		<title>“What we think, we become.”    -Buddha</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2562</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as psychology itself, Buddhism is dedicated to psychological well being, and Buddha has been referred to as the first psychologist.  So much so, Robert Thurman (the first ordained Tibetan Buddhist Monk from the United States)  often refers to &#8220;Dr. Buddha&#8221; in many of his writings and lectures. Dr. Buddha has been teaching the...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living&#8221;  -Socrates</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2586</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The scrutiny and questioning which are the soul of Socrates&#8217; &#8216;examined life&#8217; are also fundamental to Buddhism.   Buddhism has traditions of philosophical debate whose uncompromisingly logical approach to truth seeking mirror the dialectics of the Socratic Method.  Though it ended badly for Socrates, it is this dynamic of critical thinking that has crystallized and clarified...]]></description>
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		<title>We Are What We Pretend to Be, So We Must Be Careful About What We Pretend to Be.</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2515</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The notion of natural selection and survival of the fittest has led many to develop a sense that evolutionary forces naturally selected aggressive, strong, territorial, violent human beings, since these are the characteristics that would enable one to fight for scarce resources and survive to pass down their genes.
This notion is far from the truth. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Urges Collaboration Between Buddhism and Science</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2486</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?&#8221;

Buddhism has always had a congenial relationship with science.  The Dalai Lama&#8216;s collaborations with scientists at the Mind Life Institute are inspiring new discoveries in neuroscience, quantum physics, psychology, biology, game theory, and other fields.  Scientists are beginning to benefit from the study of Buddhist...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma In Popular Music:  Satisfied Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2472</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have
You heard someone say
If I had his money
I could do things my way
But little they know
That it&#8217;s so hard to find
One rich man in ten
With a satisfied mind
Once I was waitin&#8217;
In fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed for
To get a start in life&#8217;s game
Then suddenly it happened
I lost every dime
But I&#8217;m richer...]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Questions Use of Genetically Modified Organisms</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2436</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do we really know what the long term impact will be on the species of  plants, on the soil, on the environment?  There are obvious commercial  benefits, but how do we judge what is really useful?  The complex web of  interdependence that characterizes the environment makes it seem beyond  our capacity...]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Upholds Scientific Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2413</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation:  if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims of Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those...]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Never Decreases By Being Shared</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2410</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  Happiness never decreases by being shared.&#8221; -Buddha


			
				
			
		
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		<title>To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2397</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;I think that the very moment you develop a sense of caring, others appear more positive. This is because of your own attitude. On the other hand, if you reject others, they will appear to you in a negative way. Another thing that is quite clear to me is that the moment you think only...]]></description>
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		<title>Interdependence- The Key to Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2392</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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We are, after all, social animals.  Without human friendship, without the human smile, our lives become miserable.  The loneliness becomes unbearable.  Such human interdependence is a natural law- that is to say, according to natural law, we depend on others to live.  If under certain circumstances, because something is wrong inside us, our attitude toward...]]></description>
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		<title>The Buddha Seed</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2385</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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We should never forget that even in the most perverted and cruel of human beings exists a seed of love and compassion which one day will cause him or her to become a buddha.   -Dalai Lama

			
				
			
		
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		<title>8 Quotes About Interdependence</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2371</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

















 

 




Without the love of our parents at the dawn of life, what would have become of us?  And when we grow old, we will again depend on the kindness of others.  But between childhood and old age we live a period of relative independence, and since that time we are able to...]]></description>
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		<title>58 Lojong (Mind Training) Proverbs</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2332</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, train in the preliminaries.
2.    Treat everything you perceive as a dream.
3.    Find the consciousness you had before you were born
4.    Stay focused.
5.    Let even the remedy itself drop away naturally.
6.    Stay in the primeval consciousness, the basis of everything.
7....]]></description>
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		<title>The Eight Mundane Concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace:  these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence. -Dalai Lama

Training the Mind: Verse 8
May all this remain undefiled
By the stains of the eight mundane concerns;
And may I, recognizing all things as illusion,
Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage.
The Dalai Lama writes...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma in Popular Music: Instant Karma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Instant Karma&#8217;s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head,
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you&#8217;re gonna be dead,
What in the world you thinking of,
Laughing in the face of love,
What on earth you tryin&#8217; to do,
It&#8217;s up to you, yeah you.
Instant Karma&#8217;s gonna get you,
Gonna look you right in the face,
Better get yourself together...]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhism in Star Wars:  Jedi Knights and Samurai</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2168</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



 








 


Miyamoto Musashi, unbeaten  			samurai , wrote a treatise on strategy that drew heavily on Mahayana  			Buddhism.




The Force as Source of All Ethics

﻿﻿Surely anyone with a casual interest in Star Wars has noticed the steady stream of Buddhist thought flowing throughout the Star Wars epoch. George Lucas, in fact, considers himself a...]]></description>
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		<title>How to Share the Dharma</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2153</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Do not explain the teachings without being requested to do so;  as Gunaprabha&#8217;s Sutra on the Discipline (Vinaya-sutra) says, &#8220;It should not be done without a request.&#8221;  &#8230;[Yet] Concerning this, the King of Concentration Sutra says:
Should someone request you 
To bestow the teachings, first say,
&#8220;I am not trained extensively.&#8221;
Then say, &#8220;You are knowledgeable and wise.
How...]]></description>
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		<title>Dharma in Popular Music:  Funkadelic</title>
		<link>http://www.artofdharma.org/?p=2132</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts 
Travel like a king
Listen to the inner voice
A higher wisdom is at work for you
Conquering the stumbling blocks come easier
When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
Every ending is a new beginning
Life is an endless unfoldment
 
Change your mind, and you change your relation to time
You can find the answer
The...]]></description>
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