All Blog Posts Tagged 'buddhism' (7)

Web Site Devoted to Tracking 'Fake Buddha Quotes' (UPDATED)

Recently, I posted a photograph displaying an inspirational Lao Tzu quotation (namely, "If you are depressed, you are in the living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.") to a friend's Facebook page. (Tracking down the photo led me to a Facebook page dedicated to motivational quotations apparently for business people,…

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Added by kumpel on August 18, 2012 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Theosophical work, intention and motive, Auroville and more

What’s the theosophical work?

Sep 07, 2010 04:29 am

We live in strange times. I grew up saving newspaper clippings of interesting facts, stories and opinions I’d found. My parents did the

same. Why? Because the only way to be sure of details that…

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Added by Katinka Hesselink on October 6, 2010 at 5:18am — No Comments

Aurobindo, Art, joke, W.Q. Judge, Thubten Chodron - My spiritual Newsletter July 2010

New spiritual ‘lenses’ – pages on…

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Added by Katinka Hesselink on August 31, 2010 at 2:08pm — No Comments

Spiritual Quotes, Buddhist texts, ACIM, You're not crazy and Quizzes...

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Added by Katinka Hesselink on January 6, 2010 at 5:39am — No Comments

Let's have some fun with trivia quizes :)

Squidoo has created a template for online quizes that I've been having some fun with. So test out if you really practice the second object of the TS by studying religion, by taking my quiz about religion in general. Or whether you know enough about the largest world religion: Christianity. Perhaps a bit closer to home: I also made… Continue

Added by Katinka Hesselink on November 11, 2009 at 3:30pm — 13 Comments

Spiritual fantasy; spirituality lifestyle or quest? harry potter; a buddhist...?

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Added by Katinka Hesselink on October 1, 2009 at 4:11am — No Comments

Honesty, authenticity and truth... harder than it sounds

Speaking the truth is one of the spiritual values that is traditional. I think perhaps that it's repeated so often in Buddhist and other religious literature, because it is such a very hard thing to practice.

The central question is: is it always kindness to speak the truth? And if it's not - how does one know when to speak the truth, and when to lie kindly?

I've written several blogposts about this question.

The first one asks the question:… Continue

Added by Katinka Hesselink on March 23, 2009 at 9:06am — 1 Comment