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What to Eat?
Eating the right foods provides our body with what it needs to function properly and stay strong and resilient towards overcoming and preventing disease. When we change the way we eat, we get to experience the health benefits food has to offer. Food, if used right, can act as medicine that can help the body… Read more
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Understanding Meditation
Meditation is a vast subject and there have been many developments throughout the ages and many variations among the different religious traditions. But broadly speaking the basic character of meditation takes one of two forms. The first stems from the teachings which are concerned with the discovery of the nature of existence; the second concerns… Read more
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The Gossiper: A Bihari Folktale
There lived a gossiper in a certain village. He was notorious for spreading rumours about others. But the villagers loved him, for he was an excellent entertainer. One day, the gossiper went to a confectioner in the neighbourhood. The confectioner was sitting idle, for he had no customers to deal with at that particular time.… Read more
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The Story of South-Asian Muslims
As with the Muslim world more widely, the single most important thing to understand about patterns both of Muslim history and of Muslim consciousness in South Asia is the tremendous rise of Muslim power up to the seventeenth century, and its steep decline thereafter. Before 1947, the glorious history of Muslim rule and cultural achievement… Read more
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What Flowers Mean to Us
Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist best known for his works The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works, argues that one of the reasons for our success as a species is our ability to recognise, value, classify and locate distinctive forms of plant life. Our capacity to appreciate the beauty of flowers is evidence of… Read more
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Understanding the Nature of Self
Our culture is founded upon the assumption that reality consists of two essential ingredients: mind and matter. In this duality, matter is considered the primary element, giving rise to the prevailing materialistic paradigm in which it is believed that mind, or consciousness — the knowing element of mind — is derived from matter. How consciousness… Read more
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