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Mindful Marriage: How to reconnect
After the rings are exchanged, cake is cut, honeymoon tans have faded marriages have to get down to business. The enthusiasm of this new phase in the relationship – the marriage phase—is exciting like...
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Do I Exist?
Rene Descartes said, "I think therefore I am." In one short sentence,he was able to sum up the delusion of man, because while he could deny and question the existence of everything external to him, he...
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How to deal with people who bother you
We must recognize that when we harbor negative feelings about someone, that it is not a gift or curse from others, but a choice we have to develop those negative thoughts and hold onto them until they...
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Marriage and Buddhism
My advice is always to seek love and develop love with the knowledge of the mortality of love, just as there is mortality in anything that is born. All things are impermanent, but all things are also...
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New Year: Sickness, Aging and Dying
The big holiday season comes at the end of the year. We celebrate the coming of winter, the shortest day of the year, good will towards men, peace on Earth, resolve to be better to ourselves and...
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Does Religion Hate Science?
Sumitta, What I have seen in this world is that there is a lot of hate from both sides of religion and science but in my eyes they are pratically the same thing. Other religions hate science because it...
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Abusive Relationship and Buddhism
Sumitta, What is the Buddhist view on staying/leaving emotionally abusive relationships? If we are supposed to have loving kindness and compassion and realize that everyone just wants happiness and to...
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Sex and Buddhism?
Sumitta, Is it wrong to want or have a sexual relationship if I am practicing Buddhism? If we are supposed to eliminate craving and desire then wouldn’t sex be against Buddhism? ---- Dear...
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Buddhism and The Happy Divorce
My daughter’s mother is a wonderful mom. I am an equally wonderful dad. We did not have a wonderful marriage, but we have had a fantastic divorce. Most people that discover I am divorced usually treat...
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Gay Marriage and Buddhism
Here is the audio from my talk at the University of Pittsburgh for the Rainbow Alliance’s Panel discussion on Faith and Gay Marriage. I represented Buddhism. http://www.thepao.com/GayMarriageUPitt.mp3...
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Motivation for Enlightenment
I was speaking with a fellow minister of my order and I asked him what work he was doing. He is working as an Army Chaplain and he replied “I am reminding an infantry company to remain mindful and to...
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Worry- How We Keep Ourselves From Happiness
This is the question of all questions. If the Buddha was happy growing up he never would have left his castle, his riches, his wife and child. Studying faith and religion didn’t make him happy....
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Buddhist Society of Pittsburgh 4th Annual Vesak
Filed under: Buddha, Dharma, Divorce, Ethics, Family, Four Noble Truths, IOBM, Kharma, Lifestyle, Mahayana, Marriage, Meditation, New Age, Noble Eightfold Path, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships,...
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Thrive or Strive: Motivate Change for Happiness
As I am developing this intervention model of Buddhist Therapy, I have had a few people ask how individuals and counselors can help develop change. “Mind precedes things, dominates them, creates them”...
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Do Our Emotions Make Our Decisions?
Standing over the brownie pan in the kitchen a debate rages within, “I shouldn’t have another brownie.” “Perhaps if I just took a little sliver that would be enough.” “Now it is uneven. I’ll just eat...
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