Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Wednesday, 04 February 2009 11:06 | | 
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Everything depends on how you look at things - which is very Buddhist...
Published on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 09:52 | | |
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Senior members of SGI-USA give online encouragement.
Published on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 19:00 | | |
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How do good people turn evil - and vice versa? In a talk that has remarkable echoes of Buddhist philosophy, Philip Zimbardo explains
Philip Zimbardo knows what evil looks like. After serving as an expert witness during the Abu Ghraib trials, he wrote The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. From Nazi comic books to the tactics of used-car salesmen, he explores a wealth of sources in trying to explain the psychology of evil.
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Published on Tuesday, 14 October 2008 19:00 | | |
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'Just as a spring breeze awakens tender new shoots of green, sincere
encouragement can thaw a frozen heart and instil courage. It is the
most powerful means to rejuvenate the human spirit.'
These and other words of encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Published on Tuesday, 30 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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Things are looking pretty gloomy financially. But faced with great challenges it is both necessary and possible to generate hope, explains Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism teaches that the same power that moves the universe exists within our lives. Each individual has immense potential, and a great change in the inner dimension of one individual’s life has the power to touch the lives of others and transform society. When we change our inner determination, everything begins to move in a new direction.
Hope, in this sense, is a decision.
Published on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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As the world financial system suffers its greatest shock since the 1929 Wall Street Crash, it's a good time to revisit Fritz Schumacher's classic essay on Buddhist Economics
'Right Livelihood is one of the requirements of the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics...'
See also on This Way Up:
The Money Bubble and the Coming Crash
America's House Price Time-Bomb
Published on Tuesday, 09 September 2008 19:00 | | |
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On the day the Large Hadron Collider is turned on to try to discover the basic 'how' of the universe, thoughts turn to the obvious follow-up - the 'why'. But as Ed discovered in The Buddha, Geoff and Me, according to psychiatrist Viktor Frankl that's the wrong question.
I started reading [Man's Search For Meaning] on the bus home. What a book. What a bloke! A man who could find meaning even in a concentration camp! I literally could not put it down. I almost chose to stay on the bus past my stop just so I could go on reading. But reluctantly I marked the page and jumped off, then hurried, ran almost, back to my flat so I could start reading again. Dora was right – Frankl deals with the meaning of life in a single page. And what a page!