“Quando a mente deixa de objectivar a realidade e a si mesma mediante a construção de conceitos, imagens e símbolos, isto é, quando a mente supera a dualidade objecto/sujeito, unifica-se consigo mesma e com a própria realidade tal como existe.
Archive for Fevereiro, 2010
Por: Genpo Roshi
"Há uma consciência transcendente, uma Grande Mente, um Grande Coração, presente e prontamente acessível a qualquer um de nós. Quando entendemos isso, vemos que é a fonte da verdadeira paz, felicidade, satisfação, coragem e alegria. E contudo, não sabemos como aceder a essa consciência, não sabemos como trazê-la à nossa consciência. Não sabemos como manifestá-la e incorporá-la.
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A que nos referimos quando falamos de Ciência e quando falamos de espiritualidade? Pode a meditação ser considerada uma ciência em sentido lato?
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¿A qué nos referimos cuando hablamos de Ciencia y a qué cuando hablamos de espiritualidad? ¿Puede ser la meditación una ciencia en sentido amplio?. |
The already forgotten lesson of HaitiOn this paradisiacal but politically and economically depressed island of the Caribbean an almost unprecedented human catastrophe has happened before our very eyes. When the earth shook, hundreds of thousands were stricken, more than a… |
Abrupt change 2012: population growth and resource squeezesTremendous global stress is created by the growth of the world’s population. At the end of the 20th century population was expanding by about 900 million per decade, equivalent to a new London every month. It passed 6 billion before the turn of the century, and demographic… |
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Abrupt change 2012: the climate evidenceWhat independent evidence do we have that the 2012 prophecies are true? Are there scientifically established grounds to believe not only that an interesting conjunction will occur in the position of our planet at the end of 2012, but that this conjunction will signify an abrupt tipping point for humanity? |
Abrupt change 2012: the propheciesWill the coming of a tipping point in human societies coincide with the famous 2012 prophecies? Let’s first look at these prophecies, and then look at the evidence that does—or does not—support them. |
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The change, when it comes, will be “abrupt”When you exclaim, “that’s the last straw!” you express a fundamental principle we all know but mostly ignore. In science it’s called “nonlinearity.” If you load the back of a camel, you can add load after load and the camel will adjust and cope—until the load reaches the limit of the camel’s carrying capacity. Then, [...] |
Your thinking: the key to changing the worldGandhi said, ‘Be the change you want to see in the world.’ In today’s world this means, ‘Change your consciousness so others might change theirs.’ How can you do that? First of all, get rid of the old consciousness, and the values and beliefs that support it. Ask yourself: do you believe that — Everyone [...] |
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The key insightWe must recognize that the world became unsustainable. The idea of unsustainable is a current term, but the idea behind it is not new. Already at the end of the 18th century Thomas Malthus published his famous treatise on food and population. He claimed, first, that food is necessary to the existence of man, and [...] |
What is the question?Had he lived today, Hamlet wouldn’t hesitate to tell us: to be or not to be, that is the question. But it’s not the skull of an individual that Hamlet would ponder, but the living Earth. Can we continue to “be” on this planet, or will we become extinct like the dinosaurs? |
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Ervin Laszlo is Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, President of the WorldShift Network, Founder of the General Evolution Research Group, Co-Chair of the World Wisdom Council, Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
He has a PhD from the Sorbonne and is the recipient of honorary PhD’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary. Formerly Professor of Philosophy, Systems Science, and Futures Studies in various universities in the US, Europe, and the Far East, he lectures worldwide.
Laszlo received the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in 2002, the International Mandir of Peace Prize in Assisi in 2005, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
He is the author or co-author of fifty-four books translated into as many as twenty-two languages, and serves as editor of another thirty volumes in addition to a four-volume World Encyclopedia of Peace. He lives in a converted four-hundred year-old farmhouse in Tuscany.
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