buddhism
buddhism
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-01
We can almost picture Galileo in his laboratory, surrounded by globes, charts, and telescopes, struggling with a faith that dismissed everything his logical mind was telling him. Should he continu...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-03
If we received the ultimate gift this Christmas, what would it be? A Yacht? Gold and silver? Maybe a beautiful home on a mountainside overlooking the ocean? Then again, we might decide that a mate...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-05
I fell into a relaxed routine. As my meditation deepened, beautiful visions of deep color filled the evenings and early mornings, sometimes only as a color itself but many times appearing as fie...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-06
The Buddha would have made a great CEO. He was all "bottom line," and the bottom line was freedom, or enlightenment. If something didn't contribute to this directly, then he didn't teach it. ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-08
Business ethics are quickly becoming meaningless. As a matter of fact, ethics can actually become roadblocks to maintaining the almighty bottom line. We have seen this lately in the mortgage mar...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-09
Second Noble Truth: (The origin of suffering) "It is craving which gives rise to further rebirth and, bound up with pleasure and lust, finds ever fresh delight, now here, now there ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-10
What exactly is Buddhism? A religion? A philosophy? Actually, Buddhism is a religion, but then again, it really isn't! Is Buddhism a philosophy? Yes and no! Philosophically, the Buddha exp...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-11
Third Noble Truth: (This is the cessation of suffering) "And what monk, is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering?" It is the total extinction by removing of, forsaking of, discarding...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-15
The Buddha was called the great physician. In his quintessential teaching: The Four Noble Truths, he took us under his wing, as a good doctor should, to care for his favorite patients. In his Fi...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-12-19
4. Right Action "Abstaining from killing beings, abstaining from taking what is not given, abstaining from sexual misconduct. This, monks, is called Right Action." Action is karma. K...