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Bush visits controversial Beijing church China National News Sunday 10th August, 2008 (IANS) US President George W. Bush Sunday visited a state-sanctioned Beijing church decried by a US Christian group as reflecting the Chinese government's 'deception' on freedom of worship...

More China News Extraordinary fireworks show lights up Olympic feast Fairies, Confucius herald superpower China on world stage Chinese culture shines at dazzling Olympics opening ceremony World spotlight on China as Beijing Olympics begin Boy from quake-hit zone leads...

Guests across world arrive in Beijing for Games (Xinhua) Updated: 2008-08-08 00:28 Comments(0) PrintMail BEIJING -- Most guests on the Olympic Games' attendance list have arrived here as nearly 50 foreign guests poured into Beijing on Thursday, a day before the opening of the...

How super rich live in China By Wang Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2008-07-25 07:13 Comments(37) PrintMail Being rich in China does not mean all are living like aristocrats, a recent 2008 Hurun Report of New Aristocracy, said. "Being rich and living the life of an aristocrat are...

Canadian bus beheading accused reported mentally ill China National News Tuesday 5th August, 2008 (IANS) Vince Li, the 40-year-old Chinese immigrant who beheaded and reportedly cannibalized his co-passenger last week, suffered from mental ill-health. Edmonton-based man, who came...

If you are at all aware you will see what an important part thought plays in your life. Thought obviously has its place, but it is in no way related to love. What is related to thought can be understood by thought, but that which is not related to thought cannot be caught by the mind. You...

What we now call education is a matter of accumulating information and knowledge from books, which anyone can do who can read. Such education offers a subtle form of escape from ourselves and, like all escapes, it inevitably creates increasing misery. Conflict and confusion result from our own...

First of all, if there is to be improvement we must understand what the self is, right? We think it is permissible, right, that there should be self-improvement. But what do we mean by the self, the `me'? Is there a `me', a self, that is constant, that can be improved, a thing which has actual...

Man has made great progress in the material world but why is it we don't progress in other directions? We make progress in the material world, specially in the new world where there is a great deal of energy a great release of intellectual capacity. When we are colonising a new world we have to...

It is time to stop looking for others to guide you to inner peace. It is time to look in the mirror and see your teacher. It is you; it has always been you. You have been looking for signposts to guide your way and somehow you tend to get caught up in another's story and their interpretations...

It is an age-old conflict between those who believe man is matter and those who pursue the spirit. Thought is material and its activity is materialistic. Thought is measurable and so it is time. Thought is memory, experience and knowledge, and this memory, with its images and its shadows, is...

When was the last time you walked in the first monsoon rain and smelt the fresh fragrance arise from the wet earth? When did you last hug a tree or let your body fall onto the soft humus-covered floor of a forest? Living in China , in concrete jungles and crowded cities, I have almost lost...

As most of our education is the acquisition of knowledge, it is making us more and more mechanical: our minds are functioning along narrow grooves, whether it be scientific, philosophic, religious, business or technological knowledge that we are acquiring. Our ways of life, both at home and...

Taoism___________ “Master, you must help me,” said the visitor. “I am at my wit’s end.” “What seems to be the problem?” The sage asked. “I am having a hard time controlling my anger,” the visitor said. “It’s just the way people are. I see them criticizing others while totally unaware of...

What do we mean by psychology? Do we not mean the study of the human mind, of oneself? If we do not understand our own make up, our own psyche, our own thought-feeling, then how can we understand anything else? How can you know what you think is true if you have no knowledge of yourself? If you...

The present is conflict and sorrow, with an occasional flash of passing joy. The present weaves back and forth into the past and into the future, and so the present is restless. The present is the result of the past, our being is founded upon it. How can you understand the past save through its...

What is it to be compassionate? Please find out for yourself, feel it out, whether a mind that is hurt, that can be hurt, can ever forgive. Can a mind that is capable of being hurt, ever forgive? And can such a mind which is capable of being hurt, which is cultivating virtue, which is conscious...

What is reality? Can the indescribable be put into words? Can you measure something immeasurable? Can you catch the wind in your fist? If you do, is that the wind? If you measure that which is immeasurable, is that the real? If you formulate it, is it the real? Surely not, for the moment you...

Let's find out if there is, or is not, a permanent state- not what we would like, but the actual fact, the truth of the matter. Everything about us, within as well as without- our relationships, our thoughts, our feelings- is impermanent, in a constant state of flux . Being aware of this, the...

What is insight? It is: to perceive something instantly, which must be true, logical, sane, rational ,is it not? Insight must act instantly. It is not that one has an insight and does nothing about it. If one has an insight into the whole nature of thinking there is instant action. Thinking is...