Something To Lighten up your Day Part 10

"Teach Your Children" Live in Australia

http://playingforchange.com/episodes/teach-your-children-live-in-adelaide/

Synopsis
This powerful live performance of "Teach Your Children" from Adelaide, Australia, features Tula, Roberto Luti and the PFC Band. Years ago when we started recording Songs Around The World together like "One Love" and "Chanda Mama" we never imagined we would be growing a global movement supporting musicians and music education across the globe, but this is the power of music. Today's live performance embodies all that we believe in: soulful music with an inspiring message helping us to move forward as human race, one heart and one song at a time.

When we go home.....Thich Nhat Hanh

When we go home to ourselves with the energy of mindfulness, we're no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the energy of suffering. Mindfulness gives us the strength to look deeply and give rise to understanding and compassion.

Take the Medicine ~ S N Goenka (The Art of Living)

A man becomes sick and goes to the doctor for help. The doctor examines him and then writes out a prescription for some medicine. The man has great faith in his doctor. He returns home and in his prayer room he puts a beautiful picture or statue of the doctor. Then he sits down and pays respects to that picture or statue: he bows down three times, and offers flowers and incense. And then he takes out the prescription that the doctor wrote for him, and very solemnly he recites it: “Two pills in the morning! Two pills in the afternoon! Two pills in the evening!” All day, all life long he keeps reciting the prescription because he has great faith in the doctor, but still the prescription does not help him. 

The Interbeing of Love - Thich Nhat Hanh

Religious studies professor draws influence from Buddhist experience

By Shoba Babu, The Daily Pennsylvanian, Deb 11, 2015

Philadelphia, PA (USA) -- As an undergraduate, Chair of the Religious Studies department Justin McDaniel, a preeminent scholar of Buddhism, had never studied the subject before. After volunteering in Thailand and Laos, he was inspired to explore the Buddhist culture, even becoming a monk himself.

<< Professor Justin McDaniel

McDaniel’s affinity for South Asian culture began with his volunteer work teaching English and citizenship to Cambodian refugee communities. After learning about the genocide in Cambodia and developing relationships with the people he taught, he was inspired to volunteer in Asia.

While in Thailand and Laos, McDaniel taught English, as well as AIDS and HIV prevention education, in a small town while working with schools for disabled students on the side. Because the majority of these countries’ populations are Buddhist, McDaniel was able to learn firsthand about the religion.

The Abhaya Mudra

Abhaya means fearlessness, and the abhaya mudra symbolizes the blessing of protection, peace, and the dispelling of fear. The gesture is made with the hand raised to shoulder height, arm bent, and palm facing outward. The Buddha may be sitting, standing or walking and sometimes both hands are used in this mudra.

The mudra is often depicted in temple art and frescoes showing the Buddha calming the enraged elephant Nalagiri. It is also used on the popular images of the Thai Walking Buddha images indicating the Buddha going out to bless and protect all.

Seeing the truth through Science and Dhamma

Several years ago, an American scientist received the Nobel Prize in physics. For a long time he had studied and conducted experiments to learn about the subatomic particles of which the physical universe is composed. It was already known that these particles arise and pass away with great rapidity, over and over again. Now this scientist decided to develop an instrument that would be able to count how many times a particle arises and passes away in one second. He very rightly called the instrument that he invented a bubble chamber, and he found that in one second a subatomic particle arises and vanishes 10 (power of 22) times.