9/26 Quote: Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
http://youtu.be/iYhCn0jf46U Cheers to Tim Piper for making this short but powerful piece on the manufactured “beauty” that people are programmed to strive for. Young girls see images on billboards and in commercials and they’re programmed into thinking, “Her photo is on a billboard. She’s in a commercial. People must think she’s beautiful, I want to […]
I was recently in Cambodia studying the Khmer language, teaching English, working with NGOs, and traveling around the beautiful country. This is a reflection from my time in Koh Ker Village Cambodia. Koh Ker Village is located deep in the Cambodian Northwest Countryside near the Thai and Laotian borders. Koh Ker Village Cambodia Upon reflecting this week, […]
From Big Think: One aspect of modern life which I think Buddhism speaks to is the fact that we’re not very aware of the fact that we are all interconnected. What we do in one country affects other countries. In fact, it affects stuff going on on the other side of the globe: what we […]