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World’s Largest Building Opens
Located in Chengdu (population 14 million), capital of Sichuan province in southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is the “largest freestanding building in the world,” Chinese officials say. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/travel/china-largest-building-chengdu/index.html
Mindfulness and Smartphones
Via Big Think: What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, “researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices–iPod Touch […]
Thanksgiving – Everything is a Miracle
The Way of The Master
“There is one single thread binding my way together… the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best… that is all.” ~ Confucius from The Analects of Confucius One of the main themes of Confucianism is becoming the ideal person, chun yu, who embodies virtue, which is very similar to the Greek concept of areté. The classic […]