Tag Archives: opinion

The Art of Living

Thursday, January 21, 2010

A few weeks ago, I enrolled in an Art of Living course that essentially teaches breathing techniques that are said to help alleviate stress. The breathing techniques have been created by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation. The Kriya Yoga that is taught is synonymous to Karma Yoga, which [...]

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Moral Interpretation in Hinduism

Monday, November 2, 2009

Recently, Santosh generated an interesting email thread by asking “What is ‘Hinduism’s official stance’ on premarital sex?” I saw this as an opportunity to explore how Hinduism approaches moral issues, what the consequences of Hinduism’s approach are, and why discussion of moral issues in Hinduism tends to be so clouded.
First, two points:
1) I think asking [...]

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Question of the Week: What defines truth?

Friday, October 2, 2009

In honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, I thought it would be apt to write about the role of truth in our lives today. Of all of his ideas, Gandhiji had truth as the basis for everything — so much so that he titled his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Given that so [...]

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