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One religious statue has a stronger connection than most to the heavens. An 11th-century carving from Mongolia of the Buddhist god Vaiśravana was fashioned from a meteorite fragment, a chemical analysis shows. Its extraterrestrial origins make it unique in both religious art and meteorite science. 
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The self is a disruptive, false, and, as such, unnecessary metaphor for the process of awareness and knowing: when we awaken to knowing, we realize that all that goes on in us is a flow of “thoughts without a thinker.”
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THE problem of the self - what it is that makes you you - has exercised philosophers and theologians for millennia. Today it is also a hotly contested scientific question, and the science is confirming what the Buddha, Scottish philosopher David Hume and many other thinkers maintained: that there is no concrete identity at the core of our being, and that our sense of self is an illusion spun from narratives we construct about our lives. NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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This new book presents a groundbreaking dialogue that took place in 2005 between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading researchers and teachers from both Eastern and Western traditions. The event was sponsored by the Mind & Life Institute, a Colorado-based nonprofit that studies the intersection of science and meditation; this was its second such public meeting following a similar 2003 gathering at MIT. The excerpt below comes from the book’s Epilogue, which summarizes in scholarly fashion various clinical and basic studies on meditation published between 2006 and 2011.
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"You have created the stress-inducing boss," says Buddhist teacher Kadam Morten.
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I’m a science geek as well as a Buddhist geek, and recently when I was leading a retreat on how to bring more joy into our lives I found myself making a lot...
Julie Brunt's curator insight,
December 11, 2014 4:56 AM
Science is slowly catching up with what some of the Sages have known for millenia 
Marion Mundana's curator insight,
December 18, 2014 7:11 AM
This is a fabulous article that backs up the following post about meditation and brain plasticity. I love how they have simply connected scientific research on wellbeing alongside buddhist principles. Well worth a read.
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Zoom to the code-breakers who decipher Ashoka's long lost message of compassion and religious tolerance from the granite slab. It speaks of a great treasure called Adholoka Maha-Chaitya, the Great Stupa of Nether or the Southern World.
Yangchen Lhamo's curator insight,
February 6, 2014 3:35 PM
The first inscribed portrait of the Mauryan Emperor were found and it was later shown by Kailash Rao.
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Some of New York City’s angriest teens are learning the way to a more peaceful path with a little help from the Buddha.
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I recently came across an authors@google talk by Rick Hanson, who is the author of ‘Buddha‘s Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love and wisdom’ and was immediately drawn by the similarity of the framework he uses and my ABCD model. Rick draws a lot from the Buddhist tradition and its humbling to find many similarities between what buddha preached thousands of years ago and what neuroscience tell us today.
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Religion and science have long been been at odds with each other, that is, until Buddhism came along. In fact, some might even say that Buddhism and science were cut from the same cloth.
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From Copernicus to Ancient Korea, or what the Chinese concept of change has to do with Aztec astrology.
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Why think about the self being optional then? When we focus too heavily on the self, our life often gets worse not better. Think of how you feel when you’re focusing on yourself more than others. You typically feel selfish. Your world grows smaller. How do you feel when you focus on others? You often feel generous. Your world gets bigger. Humans have a fundamental need for social connections. When we feed that social beast, we feel more human. The world makes sense. When we focus inward, we shrink a bit of our humanity. Articles about SELF: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=self
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Samanth Subramanian on the Buddhist emperor who united India...
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Meditation-The Controlled Psychophysical Self-Regulation Process That Works Publication Date: Volume 7, Issue 6 , Pages 348-353,...
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Archaeologists seem to have discovered one more missing link in the journey of Gautam Buddha from Patliputra to Bodhgaya.
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The flashbacks and nightmares came often for Robert Singh. U.S. Army veteran Singh served three tours in Iraq, from 2004 through 2010.
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