Sunday, August 03, 2003

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!

Sunday, March 02, 2003

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

Thursday, February 13, 2003

Friday, February 07, 2003

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

Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Sunday, January 19, 2003

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