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from my notes on Gandhi's Economic Thought by Ajit K. Dasgupta NY: Routledge, 1996 ISBN 0-415-11430-6 http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2014/04/gandhis-economic-thought.html [All notes from my readings in Gandhian or nonviolent economics can be...
by gmoke
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I think everyone I know personally and in real life is a MAGA. Many of them are friends, some of them very good friends. When my partner had a stroke a neighbor lady helped us get through it, including driving us up to the hospital on a Sunday, dressed...
by McCrowlerr
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 08:50 AM PST
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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s ...
by Ojibwa
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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Impermanence. We float in it. We are constantly bathing in it. Everything rises and then falls. In the poetic zen metaphor, we are “streams branching in the darkness.” When the Dalai Lama was asked to summarize Buddhism in a few words, he replied,...
by bisleybum
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on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 06:19 PM PST
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The Dude and the Zen Master Talk Peace A friend reminded me of the Zen master and social activist Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemakers (https://zenpeacemakers.org) the other day. So I went over my notes on The Dude and the Zen Master, a conversation...
by gmoke
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 07:52 PM PDT
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I was raised on a small farm in rural Michigan and of course we had animals. Cows, pigs, chickens before the price fell out of the market, and of course dogs and barn cats. They were always there and just part of the environment. Farmers don’t think of...
by McCrowlerr
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Let’s start somewhere. Buddhism is not a faith or religion it is a philosophy, you can believe in any deity/religion you wish and still be a Buddhist. All there really is are the 4 noble truths and the 8 fold path, everything derives from this Truth 1:...
by LaFeminista
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on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 08:52 AM PDT
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It’s down to the last minute of play on the field. The home team is down by seven. We’re still in midfield. It looks as if our last chance might have to be a hail Mary pass. Our game strategy, which has failed miserably, was to teach our sixteen year...
by bisleybum
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 09:14 AM PDT
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As a not particularly good non-theist Buddhist [what a mouthful], raised a Lutheran and partnered with a Catholic, the existence of god, gods and other “superior” beings is an unnecessary irrelevancy. Buddha pretty much agreed with this, as he neither...
by LaFeminista
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on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 04:47 AM PST
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The Overnight News Digest is a nightly chronicle of the day's news. Each editor makes his or her own story selection for that day's digest and publishes the compilation typically around midnight ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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It's HOW one uses religion… ideology Happy, Peaceful, Blessed New Year! * To begin off with the first genocide (in recent history), the Armenian Genocide, whether it was a jihad [1] or not, it has been agreed [2] that religious-ethnic tensions which...
by Ganaros
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 11:39 AM PST
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Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Religion, ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest -�Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Oct 29, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Five lawsuits to overturn Florida’s current 15-week abortion ban, claiming the law violates their religious freedom, were filed by seven faith leaders from South Florida on Monday who represent diverse religions—Reform Judaism, Buddhism,...
by Charles Jay
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on Thu Aug 04, 2022 at 12:48 PM PDT
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VOLUNTEERISM Bodhgaya, India. This weekend we opened our Saraswati Centre’s free primary school and broke ground for Gaia Holistic Orphan Home with Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, founder. Extreme heat plagued us, with temperatures above 110 degree, but...
by Jamesluce
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by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Apr 15, 2022 at 04:18 PM PDT
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I don’t have a specific intro today! This week is typical: Lots of sexism, occasional good news, no let-up for the holidays. Please note that your humble diarist must stay with Mom for supper and bedtime rituals, so will be by later tonight.
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Dec 18, 2021 at 05:00 PM PST
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Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread. This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no...
by LamontCranston
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on Sun Aug 08, 2021 at 07:21 AM PDT
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Good morning! �Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread. This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. �Each of us has our own path; we come ...
by LamontCranston
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on Sat Jul 17, 2021 at 07:48 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread. This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no particular tradition....
by LamontCranston
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