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#West
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
The Buddhist roots of mindfulness
The practice of mindfulness goes back thousands of years. Many spiritual traditions have encouraged presence in the moment as a way to be in touch with our inner selves, or the divine. Buddhism has made mindfulness a core part of its teachings, more so than any other tradition…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Japanese culture
Nishida implies that the proper relation between cultures is parallel to that between “I and Thou.” In simpler language: “A true world culture will be formed only by various cultures preserving their own respective viewpoints, but simultaneously developing themselves through…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Nisbett: how Westerners and East Asians think
recent work of Richard E. Nisbett on the differences between how Westerners (Europeans and North Americans) and East Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) think. Nisbett surveys a wide range of studies and concludes that there are real and important differences in how people…
Why Was Catholicism Never Blamed For Ira Offensives? The Muslim Response To Paris
Charlie Hebdo assault: the result of years of american foreign policy
We now know that the assault on Charlie Hebdo was the outcome of intra-Wahhabi rivalry. The attack has been claimed by Ayman al-Zawahiri as an al-Qaida initiative, organised by its section in the Yemen. There is no reason to doubt his assertion. His organisation has been…