March 21 -- What miracle product gives you happiness, compassion, and perhaps more surprisingly, toned abs, a fulfilling sex life, and a healthy bank balance? The answer will amaze you. It's the same product that connects the Dalai Lama and Rupert Murdoch; meditation.

Shimla, HP, India, 19 March 2014 (IANS) - Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama Wednesday stressed the need to inculcate ancient Indian teachings with modern education.

February 10 -- The question “How slow can you go?” is answered with sublime poise (quite literally) by actor Lee Kang-Sheng in Tsai Ming-Liang’s extraordinary Journey To The West (Xi You) - a film that may well be the last word in (and overtly on the subject of) ‘Slow Cinema’. A follow-up to the Taiwanese director’s 2012 short Walker – which originally formed part of the portmanteau film Beautiful 2012 - Journey takes the same premise, a Buddhist monk walking at something slower than tortoise pace, relocates it in Marseille and introduces the always fascinating wild card of Denis Lavant.

The meditation method taught by the Buddha is called Satipatthana or mindfulness meditation. This simple but profound technique removes greed, hatred and delusion by the application of systematic and sustained mindfulness to one’s own mental and physical processes.

Herein is contained a teaching conferred by Serlingpa on Atisha to help him subdue the barbarian borderlands. The guardian and teacher Serlingpa said to Master Atisha, “Son, to subdue the barbarian borderlands, you will need the following teachings:"

January 02 - It seems as though every day we grow closer to creating fully conscious and emergent artificial intelligences. As I’ve written about before, this poses a problem for many religions, especially those that ascribe a special place for humanity and for human consciousness in the cosmos. Buddhism stands out as an exception. Buddhism may be the one system of religious thought that not only accepts but will actively embrace any AIs that we produce as a species.

“One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him.“You have no right teaching others,” he shouted. “You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man “Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?”

November 21 - The announcement of the future Buddhahood of Maitriya Buddha in the Kingdom of Ketumati , the commencement of first ever Buddhist Missionary activity by 60 Arahats, the blessed ones journey to Uruvila in order to convert the Jatila Brothers to Buddhism, the last month of the rain retreat season (Vas), the passing away of the Dharmasenadhipati, one of the chief disciples - Sariputta, were some significant events.

The wicked are dear to him, with the virtuous he finds no delight, he prefers the creed of the wicked — this is a cause of one’s downfall.

November 14-- The wheel of life, also known as the wheel of becoming, is essentially a pictorial signifier representing the signified - Buddhist philosophy. The picture shows a wheel of divided into six parts or cells by spokes commencing from a central hub and radiating to the rim of the wheel.