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More on Prosperity

Posted in Prosperity, tagged , , on June 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »

More on Prosperity I’ve found in talking about Buddhism and prosperity that people tend to be surprised that the Buddha taught laypeople that it was all right to be prosperous.  Somehow the way that Buddhism has come into the West—probably through a combination of its counterculture roots and the monastic or meditative bias of the [...]

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How To Be Sick

Posted in Illness, tagged , on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »

I am currently reading a pre-publication copy of a wonderful new book about illness, entitled How To Be Sick, by Toni Bernhard.  Toni was a long-time Buddhist practitioner and law school dean when she came back from Paris, France with a viral illness, and after seven years, has still not recovered.  She has what is [...]

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