Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 3 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tevijjo Yogi – on the Right hand side
You will have seen Tevijjo Yogi at our events lately, and might be wondering what, exactly, he is. Don’t be shy, he is well used to people wondering what kind of ordainee he is, and you are welcome to ask him about it. Being of an unusual lineage, [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 12 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday’s movie – The Secret – has seen a lot of success in recent times. Aside from adding a steep irony to the title, the movie has been tailored for the masses.
Cheesy ? yes.
Marketed (successfully) for the American pulp fiction market? yes.
A little low on peer reviewed research? Don’t even ask.
But yet, the topic of [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 28 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflecting on age, sickness and death is a central practise in Buddhism – so that you arouse urgency for the practise, not so you become depressed. In fact, the older you get, hopefully, the wiser you become. It becomes easier to practise, as you have more patience. Hopefully.
George Carlin, who died june 2008, had [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged new age medicine, new age remedies on 26 July, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last part on New Age Remedies continued from Part II
Bridging the Gap
Modern treatments are continually producing results and extending people’s life spans, even if it sometimes seems otherwise. There is a continual advance, and that includes acknowledging the spiritual side as playing an important role. Science will accept any approach, so long as it can [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 25 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A look at new age remedies and healing.
Continued from Part I
Scientific Method
With most of the new age ‘alternative’ therapies, there is a feeling that modern science has tackled the problem in the wrong way. Science has failed, and it is time to look at the problem from a different perspective. But this is to confuse [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 21 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just about every ‘new age’ discipline seems to have astonishing claims for curing illness, especially cancer. Has science failed to tackle cancer; has it been looking in the wrong direction all these years?
Healing
New Age senior citizen Louise Hay has a masterful approach to changing the way people think by, well, directly changing the way the [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged getting old on 10 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[Summary: this is a copy of a chain email that is doing the rounds at present. Someone's reflections on getting old]
Old Age, Sickness and Death are three of the Devaduta – the heavenly messengers that awakened Siddhartha to the human condition. Below is a current chain email offering someone’s reflections on the advantages of getting [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged colds, health on 8 December, 2007 | 3 Comments »
[Does meditation help maintain good heath? Personal whinge at getting a bad cold. ]
Practically every Vipassana meditator feels that meditation is healing both mentally and physically. If that is so, why have I been battling a terrible cold for the last few days? As illnesses go, colds do not rank highly; I could not even [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death, tagged Add new tag, youth on 25 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ever wonder why somebody doesn’t just throw all of today’s best anti-agers into one cream?
I bet you have.
Bliss wondered, and so they created the Youth as We Know It moisturizer ($79.00, Amazon.com). The company claims the product is infused with MMP Inhibitors, Wrinkle Reduction Peptides, Visual Facial Fillers, Cellular Respiration Boosters, Hyperdermal Destressors, 7-Day Hydrators, [...]
Posted in All Posts, old age/illness/death on 1 October, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No one can have missed the situation in Burma (Myanmar) over the past week. uTube has lots of videos on the happenings, and there are lots of bloggers still managing to get their messages through. The situation over the years has been very grave – one of supression for the gentle Burmese people, but the [...]
