What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. – Buddha Those of us who grew up in the 1980s were, quite […]
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Monks & Magic: Buddhism and the Supernatural in Thailand
From New Dawn Special Issue 7 (Mar 2009) In August 2008 Bun Rany, the wife of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, led Buddhist monks and soldiers to the site of the historic Hindu temple Preah Vihear to call upon […]
Kuan Yin: The Compassionate Rebel
From New Dawn 99 (Nov-Dec 2006) It is unfortunate that Buddhism’s most enduring (and universal) contribution to the world has been insufficiently translated as compassion. The original Sanskrit word is karuna, which holds within itself traces of the fragment ‘ru’, […]
The Secret of Eurasia: The Key to Hidden History and World Events
From New Dawn 68 (Sept-Oct 2001) Beneath the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface.– A.E. Waite1 Have secret societies […]