Mango tree wisdom

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Talks of Ven. Pemasiri Thera with his student David Young about practical aspects of Buddha Dhamma at the Sumathipàla Na Himi Dhama Center in Kanduboda (Sri Lanka).

Letting go the fear out of marriage

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Dr. Manpreet Singh

A happy marriage is the foundation of a stable family. As the culture of divorce spreads throughout the world, some sociologists even suggest that the end of family is only a question of time. The individualism and consumerism of the West is growing and taking its toll in the Asian countries which historically have enjoyed a strong family and community system. The institution of marriage, consequently family, is threatened by prevailing wider acceptance of divorce — the cause of broken individuals, families, children and immense suffering.

Bhujangasana (the cobra pose)

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In this asana, the body, lying flat on the abdomen, is made to assume, by raising the head and the trunk, a pose which resembles an irritated cobra (Bhujanga). The main importance of this pose lies in the curving of the spine backwards. To maintain the activity of youth even at an advanced age, the spine must be kept supple and elastic. As age advances the muscles of the back get stiffened and lose their elasticity.

Shirshasana (Topsy-turvy pose)

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(THE TOPSY-TURVY POSE)

Five mindfulness trainings as the way out

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Bhiksuni Thich Chan Dang Nghiem (True Adornment with Non-Discrimination)

"Dear Thay,

Sometimes there are moments that I don't want to live anymore. Then I feel like a bird locked up in a cage. How can I take care of that feeling?"

Protecting families from being broken

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Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

The article by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh can be read at http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/G%20-%20TNH/TNH/Protecting%20Families%20From%20Being%20Broken/New%20Page%2010.htm

Family problems and Buddhist response

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The health and happiness of the family is essential to the he happiness of society. Despite material security and technological advances in many countries, individuals and families suffer from the lack of true communication and harmony, as well anger, violence, loneliness and despair. The papers in this address the powerful role Buddhist teaching and practice can be healing and transforming family problems at their root.

Accumulation of fat in middle age

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There is a natural tendency for an accumulation of fat in middle age. Sedentary occupations, the intake of more food than necessary, defective elimination, a disturbed metabolism of the body and want of exercise—all these attendant consequences of middle age add stealthily to our weight by an unconscious deposit of fat in our tissues. Within normal limits this is allowable but an excessive deposit of fat is certainly detrimental to health. It soon proves itself to be a drag on the body and demands greater and greater muscular effort to move the latter.

Yoga and abdominal problems of middle age

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It is a well-known, fact that our environments, faulty diet, indoor and sedentary occupations, unhygienic surroundings, the hurry and stress of modern life, our emotions and sorrows, all upset the proper functioning of our involuntary organs long before any other tissue in the body and affect the mind to make it lose its psychic balance.

Buddhist response to climate change

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Author: Johan af Klint

Introduction

Buddhism is experiencing an increased interest in the western world - partly due to its peaceful message and non-missionary appearance coupled with the apparent similarities between the Buddhist thought and modern physics.

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