Psychological Personality Tests Online for organizational development, career planning, personal development

The Phoenix Online - In tough times, stop and remember the Moon
We’ve lost the knowledge of yin. What the Bible calls the peace that passes all understanding, that profound humility before the universe, before God, that leaves you with nothing to prove. A deep truth that the Chinese saw in the face of the Moon.

Om Mani Padme Hum: The Meaning of the Mantra in Tibetan Buddhism

The Center for Journal Therapy
I teach, write, consult, facilitate and speak about journal therapy and its many applications for holistic mental health. The Center for Journal Therapy is a gathering place for those who know the power of writing for growth and healing.

Buddhist philosophy - science, religion and the mind
An enquiry into the relationship between Buddhist philosophy, modern science, other religions and transpersonal psychology. Presented as alphabetically arranged links to main topics, with brief extracts.

Cognitive dissonance
According to cognitive dissonance theory, there is a tendency for individuals to seek consistency among their cognitions (i.e., beliefs, opinions). When there is an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviors (dissonance), something must change to eliminate the dissonance. In the case of a discrepancy between attitudes and behavior, it is most likely that the attitude will change to accommodate the behavior.

Welcome to Morita Therapy Center

The Seven Points of Mind Training
This website contains a database of commentaries on the Seven Points of Mind Training. The core practice involves taking on others' sorrow and pain and sending them your joy; not as a masochistic practice but with the aim of getting away from the self-centeredness and self-seeking that cause us so much pain. These practices were brought to Tibet in the eleventh century by the Indian Buddhist teacher Atisha.

Inspirational Quotes - The Daily Inspiration

To remove violence remove inequity.

To remove inequity remove greed.

To remove greed remove ego consciousness.

To remove ego consciousness - be still.

Mindfulness (sati):

"Mindfulness is an impartial watchfulness. It does not take sides. It does not get hung up in what is perceived. It just perceives. Mindfulness does not get infatuated with the good mental states. It does not try to sidestep the bad mental states. There is no clinging to the pleasant, no fleeing from the unpleasant. Mindfulness sees all experiences as equal, all thoughts as equal, all feelings as equal. Nothing is suppressed. Nothing is repressed. Mindfulness does not play favorites."

A clear, short introduction to the concept and practice

Stress symptoms and cures - from Kansas State University - user friendly!:

"If you have a stress-related symptom, you're not alone! Nearly 85 percent of visits to doctors (and nearly as many to psychologists) are for stress-related problems. Read on to learn how you learned to react with too much tension many times each day and how that turns into headaches, ulcers, insomnia, excessive fatigue, high blood pressure, sore shoulders, or any stress-related disorder. Learn how you can begin doing something about it right now -- even while reading this article."

Eknath Easwaran - Authors - Spiritual Teachers - Soul to Spirit:

"Eknath Easwaran, one of the most respected interpreters of spiritual issues in the world today, is the founder and director of the world famous Blue Mountain Center for Meditation in Tomales, California. Born and raised in Mahatma Gandhi's India, where he grew up in s self-supporting agrarian village, he came to the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a teacher and lecturer in the United States for over thirty years. His self-published books have sold over half a million copies and been translated into eight languages."

AZA/New Orleans Zen Temple - Zazen
Zazen is a daily practice. Not easy, not difficult. But very effective in expanding consciousness and developing intuition. And not only does zazen release great energy, it is the posture of awakening. While practicing, do not seek to gain anything. Without object, only concentrate on the posture, the breathing and the attitude of mind.

More about the man and his place in the stream of things

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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H.H.Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Photos of the man

H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and his reincarnation Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Khyentse Rinpoche's re-incarnation is Tulku Ugyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup. Tulku Ugyen was enthroned on December 5, 1997 in Shechen Monastery in Boudha, Nepal.

Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The man again this time wearing the hat that shows he knows the texts.

HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was the head of the Nyingmapa Order. Originally from Shechen Monastary in Nepal, he rebuilt that monastary in Kham, Eastern Tibet, after building New Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu Valley. He was one of the greatest living lamas, scholars and teachers, and served as the Dzogchen teacher of the Dalai Lama.

Four Seals of Dharma March 2000

Buddhism In a Nutshell by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
The Four Seals of Dharma are:

<1> All compounded things are impermanent.

<2> All emotions are painful. This is something that only Buddhists would talk about. Many religions worship things like love with celebration and songs. Buddhists think, This is all suffering.

<3> All phenomena are empty; they are without inherent existence. This is actually the ultimate view of Buddhism; the other three are grounded on this third seal.

<4> The fourth seal is that nirvana is beyond extremes.

Siddhartha's Intent - Dzongsar Monastery, Tibet

This Sakyapa monastery was the residence of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1821-1894) and Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (1896-1959). During the lives of these two extraordinary spiritual leaders, Dzongsar Monastery became a centre for the rime or non-sectarian approach to the study and practice of Buddhism, and great lamas of all the four Tibetan traditions went there to study.

Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (1896 - 1959) was the most outstanding Tibetan master of this century. Authority on all traditions and holder of all lineages, he was the heart of the "non-partisan" movement in Tibet. Amongst many others he was the teacher of the Dalia Lama and of Sogyal Rinpoche.

Naropa University - Master of Arts in Contemplative Education

Mindfulness in plain English

How to overcome personal suffering - Goenka style

Investigating the mind -

Today, however, biobehavioral scientists are extending their methods and expanding their conceptual frameworks. Increasing numbers of scientists are recognizing that introspective investigation can be both rigorous and complementary to established methods of observation and measurement. The opportunity for fruitful exchange and collaboration between Buddhism and biobehavioral science may thus be ripe as never before.

Time Magazine on meditation - 1 in 8 Americans do it!

Introductions to Taoism or Daoism

In Distrust of Movements
The outward harmony that we desire between our economy and the world depends finally upon an inward harmony between our own hearts and the originating spirit that is the life of all creatures, a spirit as near us as our flesh and yet forever beyond the measures of this obsessively measuring age.

Wendell Berry

AN OVERVIEW OF THE WORK OF JEAN GEBSER
Lots of new big words but they point ot some exciting ideas

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Productive Agents
A thought train based on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra

The largest bookstore on Indology, from the oldest Publishing House in India

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”

Stephen Jay Gould