Lord Buddha was born in Nepal

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Sam Harris wants atheists - and everyone else - to get spirituality

By Religion News ServiceReligion News Service

Uber-atheist Sam Harris is getting all spiritual.

In his new book, “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion,” the usually outspoken critic of religion describes how spirituality can and must be divorced from religion if the human mind is to reach its full potential.

“Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn,” he writes in the book, but adds: “There is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”

The prescription, Harris holds, is Buddhist-based mindfulness meditation. A Stanford-trained neuroscientist, Harris is a long-time practitioner of Buddhist meditation. He said everyone can, through meditation, achieve a “shift in perspective” by moving beyond a sense of self to reach an enlightening sense of connectedness — a spirituality.

Venerable Master Cheng Yen 證嚴法師 ( Born 1937 )

“Conventional wisdom is cultivated by freeing our minds from distractions, as well as adopting an optimistic and pragmatic attitude in all that we do.”

Vipassana [mindfulness] meditation class @SABS Part 4

Lesson  4, April 5, 2013.

Bro. KC gave a brief recap of lessons 1, 2 & 3 of the meditation class pertaining to dealing with various secondary objects whilst doing sitting meditation. 

He went on to speak about the Second Foundation of Mindfulness i.e. Mindfulness on the Feeling - Taking feeling as an object of mindfulness meditation. The three types of feeling are pleasant feeling, unpleasant feeling and neutral feeling. These feelings are either bodily based [correspond with bodily sensations] or mental based [correspond with mental states].

Dhammapada Verse 387

Verse 387

       The sun shines by day,
      the moon shines by night.
  But, both all day and all night
          the Buddha shines
        in glorious splendour.

True Love Never makes You Suffer - Thich Nhat Hanh

Padhana Sutta: The Great Struggle (Sutta Nipata 3.2)

In this sutta, the Buddha names the 10 armies of Mara, the enemies that hold us back from spiritual progress.

Buddha's teaching by B R Pawan Kumar‎

Piti Sutta (AN 5.176)

The Buddha encourages lay people to go on meditation retreats and Ven Sariputta elaborates on what the experience is like.