Because when His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaks — the world listens.*
Facebook | Dalai Lama: An Ethical Approach to Environmental Protection.
+ — always excepting China, which has been tone deaf even in the best of times, and the USA, which either listens or doesn’t, depending on whether it’s an election year.

The next time you hear some mindless right wing idealogue spouting about how badly the current administration is handling the economy, link them to this article, and underscore the following:
The suburbs – not the inner cities – are now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US, according to a report by [...]

Written fifteen years ago, Mr. Robbins’ remarks in Esquire Magazine are worth revisiting today.

You Gotta Have Soul
by Tom Robbins

Mental Bungee-jumping may not be your sport of choice, but there’s a cerebral ledge that sooner or later each of us has to leap off. One day, ready or not, we glance in a mirror, cuddle [...]

Today’s thought from AmidaBuddha.org is worthy of further contemplation:

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
– T.H. Huxley

“God in his infinite freedom continuously creates a world that reflects that freedom at all levels of the evolutionary process to greater and greater complexity,” he wrote. “He is not continually intervening, but rather allows, participates, loves.”
This is one of the very best summations of my thoughts and intuitions on the subject. The universe simultaneously [...]

Taken from a forum post and republished here:
So, I’ve been mulling this thing for over a week now, wondering how to go about expressing my gratitude to the man I married almost 13 years ago. I decided to do it here because: A) It’s my forum and I can and B) Most of the people [...]

A dear friend of mine in British Columbia sent me this link today. He knows of my interest in [tag]quantum physics[/tag] and [tag]string theory[/tag] (a layperson’s interest, obviously — though I’m always delighted by how these two speculative sciences end up sounding so much like [tag]spirituality[/tag] and [tag]mysticism[/tag]) and indeed, I found a lot to [...]

Apparently, [tag]Dan Brown[/tag] and his [tag]Da Vinci Code[/tag] are no longer the last word in the encrypted secrets alleged to be in [tag]Rosslyn Chapel[/tag].
Rosslyn Chapel holds a musical mystery in its [tag]architecture[/tag] and design. At one end of the chapel, on the ceiling are 4 cross-sections of arches containing elaborate symbolic designs on each [...]

Of what use is it, I wonder, to speak of [tag]mindfulness[/tag] to a generation that grew up multitasking? Can the quiet, subtle peace of complete surrender to the one task at hand possibly compete in allure with the bright, glittering, ubiquitous sideshows that divide attention, again and again, into minutiae?
I don’t know. These are the [...]