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RING THE BELLS by Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good combination. A beautiful song.

I am happy to share RING THE BELLS written and sung by my friends, Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad. This song will be on Melissa’s new album, A New Thought for Christmas, to be released on Rumi’s birthday, September 30th. RING THE BELLS is a message of change and peace.

Tags: music, peace

Dalai Lama

Thu, 01 May 2008 22:55:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.time.com

Millions of people turn to the Dalai Lama for inspiration, but to whom does he turn? He and his people have struggled all their lives with the audacity of hopelessness. Oppression and exile are their daily bread. Yet the Dalai Lama, 72, remains calm in the face of cruelty. What does he think of the human race? "We are the superior species on Earth but also the biggest troublemakers," he once told me.

China's rulers aren't like the British masters of colonial India, and the Dalai Lama's Gandhiesque nonviolent struggle won't give them twinges of conscience, leading to Tibet's freedom. If anything, Beijing has grown more ruthless in suppressing Tibetan aspirations, as we've seen this Olympic year. And yet he has found a way to think kindly of those who oppress his people and vilify his name.

I found him unwilling to show any harshness. He said to me, "I don't dislike the Chinese, only their actions."

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The single worst idea ever promulgated

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:56:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: that God needs defending.

Clip Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com

I've always felt that our rabid Christian preachers and their rabid mullahs are explicit enemies but implicit allies. Both support a misbegotten idea of what God demands -- total faith and unquestioning obedience. Both sides also skew and cheat about what the other actually believes. If you want to fuel prejudice, any religion can be made to look rigid, hide-bound, intolerant, and inhumane. Does it really matter when a bomb explodes in a busy night club whether it was thrown by a member of the IRA or al-Sadr's militia? When Christians fight Muslims to prove the supremacy of one religion over another, both have defiled their faiths.

What makes implicit allies out of explicit enemies boils down to one idea, the single worst idea ever promulgated: that God needs defending.

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Why Jesus Lost the Nomination

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:27:26 GMT

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Clip Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com

Actually, it seems to be forgotten that Jesus once ran for President, and the result was a fiasco. Since the first plank of his platform was "Love your enemies," he had no choice but to seek the nomination of both parties at the same time, promising to merge the two into one. Republicans and Democrats were brought up short by the idea. Jesus called it a win-win situation for them, given the enormous savings in campaign costs. Pollsters were bothered by Jesus's claim that he knew how the election would turn out in advance. It seems that his Father, who has a finger in everything, had tipped him off.

As it turns out, Jesus's other planks caused even more problems on the bumpy road to the nomination. The second one was "Money is at the root of all evil." This forced his campaign to refuse contributions from lobbyists and special interest groups.

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Divine Impulses

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:06:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

Video interviews of Deepak by Sally Quinn of the Washington Post on Hinduism, Christianity, death and healing.

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An Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:26:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

From

Russell Simmons, Deepak Chopra, and Benjamin Chavis

Dear Presidential Candidate:
We are writing to you on behalf of a new, more conscious electorate. As the potential next President of the United States, you know that we are living in a remarkable moment in human history. Millions of people around the world are crying out for a higher quality of life.
A global grassroots movement has already formed. Thanks to a wave of rising consciousness, countries once consigned to the Third World are praying, seeking, struggling and working for positive, even redemptive change. Given the opportunity to participate in the voting process, emerging populations will express their political will and spiritual aspirations for the future.
In that light, we want to ask you six questions:

1. How open are you to welcome and encourage a more inclusive political dialogue?

We are thinking about those who are at the margins of the political establishment.

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The Wonder of You

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:05:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

In this one-minute video, Deepak explores the mystery of your body in its growth from a single cell to a symphony of activities guided by an inner intelligence that mirrors the wisdom of the universe.

Please share his beautiful message widely!

Take a minute to shift, with “The Wonder of You,” featuring Deepak Chopra:

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Buddha means one who is awake

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:32:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.voanews.com

What does Buddha mean and what challenges has Buddhism faced in Eastern history? How does Buddhism maintain its peacefulness and resist outside cultural and religious influences from other regions?

Deepak: Buddha means one who is awake. Buddhism has faced challenges from all religions, including Hinduism, because it does not believe in an external authority, including religious authority. It maintains its peacefulness through the experiential understanding of inseparability, which spontaneously leads to peace, harmony, compassion, laughter and love.

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Review of The God Delusion by Deepak Chopra

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:16:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

The God Delusion is a reflexive counterpunch, a derisive, often entertaining polemic against unreason. It’s hard not to admire Dawkins’ skill when he compares the narrow spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies that our senses can detect to the slit in a burka worn by Muslim women. In both instances one’s vision becomes very limited. As with any good debater, Dawkins relishes unfairness in a good cause. To implicitly lump all believers into the same bag as Jerry Falwell and mullahs in Iran ignores a thousand divisions of faith. To portray God as an anthropomorphic patriarch sitting above the sky ignores thousands of years of theology and philosophy. Allah isn’t personified, neither is Yahweh in the Old Testament or Brahman in Hinduism, not to mention belief systems like Taoism and Buddhism that dispense with God but retain a transcendent dimension .

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creativity with evolution - Tagore

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:27:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.intentblog.com

Message from Tagore

I thought I would share a poem by the great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913). In this poem, he reconciles the

idea of creativity (not creationism) with evolution (evolution as an expression of intelligence in nature, in addition to adaptation and natural selection as expressions of intelligence.) Einstein and Tagore once had a wonderful conversation in which they reconciled the worlds of science and consciousness. I hope to find it and post it on the board one of these days.

I hope you enjoy the poem:

Time is endless in your hands, my infinite Being.
There is none to count your minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers.
You know how to wait.
Your centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.
We have no time to lose, and having no time we must scramble for our chances.
We are too poor to be late.
And so it is that time goes by while I give it to every querulous man who claims it, and your altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
At the end of the day, I hasten in fear lest your gate be shut;
But I find that yet there is time.

On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time. But time is never lost.
The infinite consciousness has taken every moment of my life in its own hands.
Hidden in the heart of things, it is nourishing seeds into sprouts, buds into blossoms, and ripening flowers into fruitfulness.
I was tired and sleeping on my idle bed and imagined all work had ceased.
In the morning I woke up and found my garden full with wonders of flowers.

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Deepak Chopra: Your First Kiss Lives On

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:02:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You can read the parables and tales at this link
http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2006/10/death_at_the_do.html

Clip Source: www.beliefnet.com

Deepak Chopra: Your First Kiss Lives On

The renowned doctor talks about what happens after death and why everything--even your first kiss--has an afterlife.

Interview by Laura Sheahen

In his 45th and most recent book, mind-body pioneer Deepak Chopra explores what's on the other side of the veil that separates life and death. Beliefnet editor Laura Sheahen recently talked to Chopra about what will happen to him after he dies, how it is that people can talk to their pets with their minds, and how every moment in your life has a lingering karma that will show up on the "Akashic record" of your soul.

What do you believe will happen to you the moment you die?

I think I will enter a realm of pure consciousness, and I am hoping that my death will be as conscious as my life. And at that moment, I will be able to make the choices that I want about where I want to evolve and how I want to evolve as I make them now.

What sort of choices do you think there might be in the afterlife? What would you hope for?

More creativity, more insight, more understanding from relationship, more evolution, a period of incubation, and then a choice of whether I want to make this journey again.

So you do have the choice about coming back to a human life?

Right.

There's a poem by Billy Collins that says everyone gets the afterlife they believe in.

Yeah, I totally believe that.

Tags: spirituality, life, death, interview, deepak, religion