When the Americans said they would save the world for democracy, the Dalai Lama held an all night prayer vigil to promote peace and said that’s sufficient. What do we do with candle light vigils and peace? Is peace the same as democracy as the United States Government claims? I don’t think […]
When linked as we are to the past and to the present and the future condemns us with violence and war what do we do? We benefit one or two as I state the Dalai Lama spoke on at his press conference. But when we are in violence ourselves, we want a systemic […]
When in the study of Buddhism, you come across Absolute Belief. Run and Hide. It is not what it seems, says the Dalai Lama. I say stay put and study it for absolute belief is rare as is Absolute Belief. I study both, local and global. An instance of it […]
In the beginning of Buddhism, there was a man and a woman who searched for truth at about 8 BC if you read the Upanishads carefully, that’s what the Dalai Lama has said in His Early Teachings. He has not forsaken them but doesn’t equate them with the Rest or the Early Early Early […]
What is the distinction for localness and yet for sameness: the same yet different, different yet the same? None of these fit what Starbucks is talking about for difference is forbidden as I said, yet same yet different, different, yet the same is Buddhism at it’s essence.
How can we shift, by allowing local coffee […]
If the personal is to be redeemed in corporate business, as the Upanishads indicates, then we will see difference and similarity in all we do. For instance, Starbucks is local at each corner, yet it is the same in each location, difference is forbidden. Then what do we seek: local difference, not to […]
For the first time, in the coverage of this Buddhist Journaling Blog, I decide to speak: I’ve been covering Tricycle and the Dalai Lama’s Teachings for as long as I’ve been writing. I have concerns about Business or business, in the home even, bringing about World Peace. These teachings say it is time […]
In the novices treatment of Buddhism, we discuss Business The Dalai Lama is reported in Tricycle’s Letters to the Editors to have said. I didn’t read it, just heard about it. I worship his discussions as they are always brillantly clear.
Business is a moving force and may bring about peace, if the radical […]
When reading about Bethlehem Steele (BS) in the Paper of Today, The New York Times as They Call Themselves in discreet??!!!, I read about how BS bought an old recycling mill and was using it for recycling of durable and useable goods like cars. A very decent and recent innovation from dumping grounds. […]
When we spend time analyzing our emotional states, we become pinpricks for causes, such as clearing up the neighborhood and clearing up the swamp, The Dalai Lama reportedly has stated in one of His Teachings. When is that the case, for I found that I have analyzed my emotional states for several decades and […]