Sangha of Auspicious Companions

August 23, 2012

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The ‘Greener Grass on This Side’ Farm

“Both were high-flying professionals in Silicon Valley (Ragu a marketing whiz, Nisha a hardcore software engineer). They had their son Aum and promptly sold everything off and moved to rural Tamil Nadu. They wanted to farm, but had no experience in it. They jumped in with the intention of living and being in a way better aligned with their inner voices, and learning what they needed along the way. Many people talk about such a shift, very few actually do it. By my count, I only know these two.” Social entrepreneur Neil Patel shares further. { read more }

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WANTING TO BE RIGHT

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.

But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes

us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable

obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.

Of Interest to Readers

Tell all your Spanish-speaking friends: this book is now available en Español (as an eBook, too)!

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August 22, 2012

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The Geography of Giving

Ever wonder how charitable the people are who live in your state or community? It turns out that lower-income people tend to donate a much bigger share of their discretionary incomes than wealthier people do. And rich people are more generous when they live among those who aren’t so rich. That’s according to a new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which breaks charitable giving down by ZIP code. It found that generosity varies greatly from one region of the country to another. { read more }

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August 21, 2012

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How Ignorance Fuels the Evolution of Knowledge

“In the fifth century BC, long before science as we know it existed, Socrates, the very first philosopher, famously observed, ‘I know one thing, that I know nothing.’ Some 21 centuries later, while inventing calculus in 1687, Sir Isaac Newton likely knew all there was to know in science at the time — a time when it was possible for a single human brain to hold all of mankind’s scientific knowledge. Fast-forward 40 generations to today, and the average high school student has more scientific knowledge than Newton did at the end of his life. But somewhere along that superhighway of progress, we seem to have developed an indifference to the unknown knowable. Yet it’s the latter — the unanswered questions — that makes science, and life, interesting.” { read more }

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August 20, 2012

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Two Quick Judo-Joy-Chops

“I was on my way to the post office. I hadn’t found a parking place on my first pass up the street and was now making a left turn into a small parking lot in order to loop back towards the post office. It’s a tight space and there’s a mail box set up right inside the lot so people can pull in, roll down their window and reach out to stick a letter into the box without getting out of their cars.” When the car ahead of the author stops in front of the mail box, a routine post-office errand turns unexpectedly into much more… { read more }

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THE ONLY THING WORTH DOING

At present we have this rare and good human life of freedom and fortune, but it won’t last forever. We are certain to die and don’t know when. At death nothing at all but our spiritual practice will be of any use to us. That is the only thing worth doing—everything else is a futile waste of energy. We tire ourselves for the sake of reward and reputation and in our search for the kind of companions we prefer, but we can take none of these with us when we die. They must be left behind and only the imprints of negative actions we have performed in the process of trying to acquire them accompany us to our next rebirth. This is not hard to understand, but we must remember it and think about it till it affects the way we think and feel.