What is walking meditation? Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking was not simply a way to get from one place to another, or an activity to be reserved for a perfect forest path. It could be a profound contemplative practice putting people in…
I too believe in God!
By Balkrishna Sama, a poet from Nepal
GETTING INVOLVED WITH MINDFULNESS
Staying in an environment exclusively reserved for the self leads towards an experience called mindfulness. Residing in this environment are the present moments connected to what one is doing, cohering internally with one’s own body and mind while keeping an absolute awareness of breath’s inhale and exhale flow. Mindfulness is the idea of being present…
HOW RELIGIOUS VIEWS GET EMBEDDED:
In religion, most people do not read the fundamentals of the scriptures. But they gather their religious knowledge or information thru a third party, like sermons or lectures from priests or religious leaders. It can be biased or prejudiced. But this is where the mindset of religious views gets embedded that often stays lifelong or…
In God We Trust:
The four-word phrase appears on all American currency. The fact is, rather than God, the Trust lies in honouring the printed value of a currency note as promised by the signature of the U.S. treasury secretary. God does not play any role in the legality of the legal tender. So why does God’s commitment inscribed…
Hindu Swastika Exhibits Tolerance, Fortune and Auspiciousness
Despite being stigmatized as a Nazi emblem of anti-Semitism, hate and violence, Swastika, the world’s most recognized sign, represents an auspicious and sacred symbol in Hinduism. The Swastika, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘svastika,’ means ‘lucky.’ Swastika’s geometric pattern of Swastika has its origin over 10,000 years ago in the Indus Valley Civilization. It got…
How one atheist laid the foundation of contemporary Hindu nationalism
Saba Sattar, The Institute of World Politics India’s position as a secular nation is under threat. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pro-Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, the country’s 200 million Muslim minority population has been increasingly targeted. Over the past few years, so-called cow vigilante groups have attacked Muslims for consuming beef, an act that…
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