Let no one imagine that it is a mere fancy, the attaching of importance to the birth of the year. The earth passes through its definite phases and man with it; and as a day can be coloured so can a year. The astral life of the earth is young and strong between Christmas and [...]
From the monthly archives:
December 2009
There are a lot of sites online that share Buddha quotes. Unfortunately, many of those quotes cannot be found in the Buddhist scriptures, let alone in the oldest Buddhist scriptures which are most likely to contain the Buddha’s word. In trying to find quotes about happiness in Buddhism, I naturally started with the oldest Buddhism. [...]
These quotes are all based on psychological research into what makes people happy. People who go to work in their overalls and on the bus are just as happy, on the average, as those in suits who drive to work in their own Mercedes. David Lykken Economic growth in affluent countries has provided no apparent [...]