The Power of an Idea whose Time has Come

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The Power of an Idea whose Time has Come
Wisdom Quarterly
Nov. 16, 2011 Occupy Wall Street's first camp is demolished and swept into the dustbin. But you can not arrest an idea, or a movement, or the truth. The worldwide movement lives on. And Wall Street is still the focus of attention. The movement was never about a single location because the camp was never allowed on Wall Street to begin with. Parks and city centers all over the US are simply manifestation of the power of an idea whose time has come. The police state, predictably, cleared corporate Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in a predawn raid.

(RussiaToday) Zuccotti Park today, Nov. 16, 2011, post invasion

Protesters have been allowed to return but without their insufficient winter equipment, which was stolen from them. The court intervened with a restraining order on police then quickly backed down due to 1 percenter multi-millionaire Mayor Bloomberg's influence behind the scenes. Demonstrators can now bring only a small bag with them, but no tents or sleeping bags are being allowed.

DAY 60: Occupy Wall Street (video)

Occupy Wall Street, RT.com, Wisdom Quarterly, Pacifica

A gauntlet of free beatings, cowboy police at the rodeo herd hapless cows as if it were a holocaust. Zurich was also raided.

• JP Morgan (bank) buys NYPD for $4.6 million
• Watch Occupy Wall Street LIVESTREAM

Midnight Solidarity with Zuccotti Park

Tuesday, 12:20 am, Nov. 15, 2011


"You can't arrest an idea."

Google keeps police brutality videos up

WOMEN’S DAY on Pacifica Radio Archives

Occupy Wall Street destroyed by police

MIDNIGHT POLICE RAID

Occupy Los Angeles watched the livestream and spontaneously woke the camp and marched two miles through a deserted downtown banging drums in solidarity, causing an LAPD tactical alert until 2:00 am.

• #OWS gets court staying mayor and police vandalism
  

(AP) Occupy Wall Street protesters have been ordered to leave [and struck with batons and pepper spray] Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan. But they've been told they can return once it has been cleaned [and their computers, tents, generators, equipment, food, and everything else has been destroyed, pile into bins and carted away].

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(John Taggart/NY Daily News)

At about 1:00 am Tuesday [Nov. 15, 2011], police handed out notices from the park's "owner," Brookfield Office Properties, and the City saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.

Protesters were told they could return -- but without sleeping bags, tarps, or tents [or any protection from the elements as winter descends].

Paul Browne, a spokesman for the NYPD, says most people began filing out of the park once they received the notices; one person was arrested for disorderly conduct. Brown says the park was not heavily populated Tuesday morning. More

Camp Bulldozed to "Clean" It
NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York police...dressed in riot gear, descended on the headquarters of "Occupy Wall Street" in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, issuing protesters with eviction letters and warning they would be arrested if they remained. The officers arrived just after midnight...ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park. Campers were told [but not given the chance] to remove their tents and all their belongings... [That removal was done by special police cleaning/demolishing crews.] More

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Occupy Oakland tossed from one camp yesterday

Occupy Wall Street's permit to protest

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Solidarity strike with Oakland to stop corporate corruption and its maintenance through police brutality (OccupyWallSt.org)

Forty+ Days at Occupy Wall Street

#OCCUPY WALL STREET is a leaderless, people-powered movement for democracy that began in America on Sept. 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the corruption by money of our democracy… It is now Day 46.

(RT) Movement is spreading across US to hold Wall Street accountable.
Christina Gonzalez beaten by police and arrested for filming abuse.

• Join your local #OCCUPY!
• Winter donations needed
• Are police part of the 99%?

This proposal was passed by the Occupy Oakland General Assembly on Oct. 26, 2011 in the reclaimed Oscar Grant Plaza. Paramilitary troops and various police agencies violently evicted occupiers and attacked Marine veteran Scott Olsen, but the occupiers returned. General Assembly: 1,607 people voted with 1,484 voting in favor of the resolution, 77 abstaining, and 46 voting against, which passed the proposal at 96.9% agreement. The GA operates on a modified consensus process that passes proposals with 90% in favor with abstaining votes removed from the final count. More

The Bill of Rights permits the people to peaceably assemble to petition the government for a redress of grievances (Liza Sabater/Flickr).

• St. Paul's problem: 3rd cleric resigns over Occupy London
  

Occupy Wall Street: Snow on American Fall

A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement looks for tent in Zuccotti Park as the first winter snow falls in New York, Oct. 29, 2011 (Lucas Jackson/Reuters).

• #OCCUPY WALL STREET

(Time.com) The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park on a glorious mid-September Saturday and, so far, many of its larger marches have taken place in the warmth of New York's Indian summer. But winter has been looming, and on Saturday, just a couple days before Halloween, the protesters got a preview of what they're in for. More

Freezing pre-Halloween snow (newswhip.com)

Meditating with Deepak on Wall Street (video)

Get Grounded, Deepak Chopra, Occupy Wall Street, Wisdom Quarterly

(Getgroundedtv)

October, 2011 - There was meditation at Occupy Wall Street early on. Why? Meditation is about change and evolution. It is not passive resistance. It is internal activism that blossoms into external action. From the first day of coverage of the Occupy Movement in New York Getgrounded.TV will be putting out short videos on the network until it succeeds, and a documentary down the road.

“I personally believe that you can accelerate neural development and biological evolution through video games,” says Deepak Chopra. “Unfortunately, that’s not what we’re doing right now. What we’re doing is creating addictions to violence, adrenaline, and mindlessness, rather than mindfulness.”

Still from Leela, a meditation video game for Xbox 360

“[V]iolent games stress you out? Would you like to meditate to a soothing video game after a long day’s work? If so, spiritual guide Deepak Chopra and THQ may have a game for you. Called Leela, a word that means “play” in Sanskrit, the game uses Microsoft’s Kinect or the Wii Remote to combine the world of games with breathing and meditation exercises, reports the AP. More

Veteran: "There is no honor in this" (Occupy)

A Marine at Occupy Wall Street tells NYPD "There is no honor in beating unarmed citizens."

• CostOfWar.com
  
• OccupyWallStreet.org
• OccupyTogether.org
• Global reaction to killing Kaddafi
  

Why Wall Street is being Occupied (video)

Wisdom Quarterly, Mediaite.com

Are the anti-corporatist ideals of the Occupy Wall Street movement safe on Real Time with Bill Maher? “The don’t really have a coherent message,” Maher complained about the Wall Street “hippies.” His audience loves the O.W.S. ideology. But until candidate Alan Grayson passionately stood up for the cause and got a standing ovation, Maher and his panel mocked the Occupation ruthlessly for their “bongo drums,” disorganization, and incoherence. More

What did Grayson say to get a standing ovation?

• "Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago -- and nobody's been held responsible for that."
• "Not a single person has been indicted or convicted for destroying 20 percent of our national net worth accumulated over the course of two centuries."
• "Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country."
  
• "One party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street, and the other party caters to them as well."

The Grayson message on The Rachel Maddow Show

• "We should not have 24 million people in this country who can't find a full time job."
• "We should not have 50 million people in this country who can't see a doctor when they're sick."
• "We should not have 47 million people in this country who need government help in order to feed themselves."
• "We should not have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home."

• OccupyWallStreet.com
• OccupyTheNation.com
• OccupyTogether.org
• October2011.org
• UprisingRadio.org
  
• OccupyEverything.org[?]
• Alan Grayson events: (310) 858-6643

What our Occupy Movement wants

What does the Occupy Movement want?
Wisdom Quarterly at Occupy LA, Berkeley, and Oakland

There are no "demands." But what do we the people, the 99%, want?

(1) An end to corporate rule and stricter regulation of banking greed.
(2) An end to war (American occupations and hegemony around the world, covert actions by CIA/NSA/NSC and other clandestine agencies, and the Pentagon being in charge of US foreign policy).
(3) Jobs.
(4) An end to US prison culture and torture in US jails and abroad by US agents -- and instead a right to an education without being drowned in debt.
(5) Equality: fair treatment of ALL the people in this country.
(6) Government by the people for the people (not by and for corporations).
(7) Participatory-representative democracy that actually represents 99% of we the people.

It might be enough to say that what Americans want is for this country to actually try to live up to the Constitution and Bill of Rights it claims: The right to life, liberty, and not-happiness but at least the right to pursue happiness the way each of us chooses without harming others.

Corporations (in the guise of corporate personhood) are pursuing their happiness at our expense. Corporate rule must end.

• OccupyWallStreet.com
• OccupyTheNation.com
• OccupyTogether.org
• Occupy Wall St. growing and moving fast
  
• Blaming Wall St. and D.C. as protests spread
  

When the nagas wanted to be on the original rebel flag

(OccupyLA.org)

(Wrestlingdivanewyork) Oct. 15, 2011 solidarity march of estimated 10,000+ people in LA.

What "Occupy Together" wants (list)

The position of Occupy Together as edited by Wisdom Quarterly


Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Occupylosangeles.org

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must keep an eye on what brought us together. We write so that all people wronged by corporate forces of the world will know that we stand together as allies. We are here until the fairness that is already law is actually applied to banks, hedge funds, corporations, the military, and the White House. As ONE people, united, we acknowledge that:

• The future of the human race requires the cooperation
• Our system must protect our rights
• If the system is corrupt, it is up to individuals to protect rights
• A democratic government derives its (just) power from people
• Corporations do not have our consent to extract Earth's wealth
• No real democracy is attainable when economic power rules

We come at a time when corporations -- which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality -- run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

But WHY are you occupying major US cities?

• Corporations have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure, despite not having the original mortgage.
• Corporations have taken bailouts from [corrupted politicians on the backs of] taxpayers with impunity, yet they continue to give their executives exorbitant bonuses.
• Corporations have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on skin color, age, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the air, water, and food supply and undermined farming through monopolization.
• They have profited from illegal torture, unjust confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhumans and actively hidden these practices.
• They have stripped employees of the right to negotiate for living wages and safer working conditions.
• They hold students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, a human right provided to earlier generations.
• They have outsourced labor and used that as leverage to cut workers’ health coverage and pay.
• Corporations have corrupted the courts to have the same rights as people, with none of the responsibility.

• They have spent millions on legal teams to look for ways to evade taxes and get out of health insurance contracts.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have bought and traded pollution as a commodity.
• They have used our police and military to end freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products in pursuit of profits.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have and continue to produce.
• They have lined the pockets of politicians who are supposed to regulate them.
• They HIDE and block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil, gas, plastic, war, coal, and pollution.
• They block generic chemicals that have already reaped great profits violating patent promises.
  
• They block and outlaw natural remedies, therapies, vitamins, and supplements.
• They promote synthetic poison pharmaceuticals and tainted vaccines.
  
• They purposely cover up oil spills, accidents, criminal bookkeeping, and harmful ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They keep us disinformed, misinformed, and fearful by control of the media.
• They accept private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious evidence of their innocence.
• They perpetuate colonialism occupying us at home and others abroad.
• They encourage and engage in torture and the murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They behave as a military-industrial EMPIRE that has little regard for US citizens.
  
• Corporations create, deploy, and sell weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
  

*THESE GRIEVANCES ARE NOT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LIST OF WHY WE ARE HERE.

As long as they don't come to DC, I don't care what they do. You won't fund my re-election? Well, these hippies have got to be dealt with with the full authority vested in my office.

People of the world,

We the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you: Assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we all are facing; generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

We will make our voices heard!

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• Woman at SF Fed demands Dimon come out hands up

Agitation and Ahimsa (video)

Sanjiv Kakar (Times of India), OccupyWallStreet.org, Wisdom Quarterly, Feminist.com

Ahimsa means harmony, non-violence, non-harming. Police are not familiar with it.

Today we see tens of thousands of citizens, including many youths, taking to the streets for a better tomorrow. In a country with a sizable youth population, having youngsters at the forefront of political agitation is not surprising.

• occupywallst.org
• Satellite to fall Friday night
  

Let movements remain nonviolent. For violence always ends in failure. It is truth that wins out in the end because, like the sun hidden by clouds, it will shine before long.

The spectacle of families bringing their children to Anna Hazare's fast at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi for a dose of morality and [divine] ethics raises fundamental questions. What is it that we can do to establish ahimsa in our youth? Since protest is here to stay as a vital tool in the political arena, education in non-violence becomes a priority. More

• Take action! (feminist.com)
• V Day for safer college campuses
• Nepal supports Palestine's independence
• Tibetan monks visit Red Bank's Westside
• Nepali Congress will stay together
• Remote Indian village reached after quake
  
• Uprising Radio: Rise Up for Justice and Peace
• Buddhist pilgrimage to expand in Indian state
• Between China and India lies Burma's future
• Meditation in New York (free class Oct. 2)
• Buddhism in Northeast USA (directory)
  
• Temple to teach Thai, Buddhism classes
• LAYTON, Utah - Wat Dhammagunaram Buddhist Temple is teaching a 12-part series on basic Theravada Buddhism Saturdays, 2-4 pm. Wear white. Chase12@comcast.net, (801) 966-0639, 644 E. 1000 North.

Protesters: Stock Market plunges 391 points

Wisdom Quarterly

(RTAmerica) Crowds gathered in New York's financial district to protest Wall Street greed, corruption, and lack of accountability. RT's Anastasia Churkina dove into the rally to find out whether this could be the beginning of America's own Arab Spring.

"Occupy Wall Street" protests make an impact
RT calls it America's own "Arab Spring" -- when ordinary people rise up against unbearable oppression. The impact being made by "Occupy Wall Street" protesters is calling attention to un-prosecuted multinational banking crimes and high finance shenanigans.

The national debt, credit crisis, and high unemployment rates are all tied in to what goes on in the guarded halls and smoky rooms along Wall Street. More than any other institution -- military, social, or religious -- banking is the seat of power.

Motivated by greed, pulling political strings, calling the shots at the Pentagon, CIA, and the White House, it has been about the money since early temples began issuing notes for the treasures stored in their vaults.

The History of "Money"

• Protesting Wall Street
• Occupy Wall Street: The Protesters Speak (PSFK)
• "Anon" shift focus from O.W.S. to death penalty
• Protesters vow to camp near Wall Street indefinitely
• More articles and more
• VIDEO: A Brief History of the American Dollar
• VIDEO: Money: History's Biggest Scam

How American Banking Works
If citizens knew that this was how banking worked, they would occupy Wall Street. It's a good thing they're kept numb in the dark, amused to death.

What Really Happened on Sept. 11? (video)

9/11 starts at 39:05, Zeitgeist: The Movie, 2010 updated version (ZeitgeistMovie.com)

• ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE COMPANION GUIDE (PDF)

The new guide by filmmaker Peter Joseph offers 220 pages of source material backing the claims made in this classic film, which goes much further than investigating 9/11. See on YouTube.

The CIA has us constantly brainwashed

Daniel Brandt (NameBase NewsLine, No. 17, April-June 1997)

Obama "authorizes" CIA to destabilize foreign government (rawstory.com)

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty [Organ]

Alongside those Greek morality plays and biblical injunctions, we are also reminded by history itself that the use of unethical means to achieve a "worthy end" can be self-destructive. Power, by definition, is isolated from the correcting signals of external criticism.



Or perhaps the feeling of fighting "evil" fits so comfortably, that it is difficult to shed even after objective circumstances change.

The history of U.S. intelligence since World War II follows both patterns. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA's predecessor, had jurisdiction over wartime covert operations and propaganda in the fight against fascism.

• "Mind control" daily occurrence for Five Corporations, CIA
  
  

OSS chief William Donovan recruited heavily among social and academic elites. When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good.



OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC was not integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles.



Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations. By mid-1953 the department was operating with 7,200 personnel and 74 percent of the CIA's total budget. More

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• NY billing reveals details of secret CIA rendition flights

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• Obama calls new CIA chief on his military retirement

Apple's newest release: The "iQuit"

Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)

The Steve Jobs and Apple Story (Telegraph.co.uk). "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" - George Orwell author of 1984.

Jobs quits. (Steve Jobs is the face and founder of Apple Computers). That was his latest bombshell announcement for Apple, a company with more discretionary cash than the United States and almost as much as oil industry giants. Some reports say more than them, too. Apple stock was down 5% on the news -- and this creates a great opportunity.



With new iPhones everyone must have, apps, new modes of computing, and above new ways of looking cool in a down economy, Apple is set to rise. The stock is expensive, but when it corrects, it will be an easy profit of at least 5 percent. Technology, style, iTunes, eBooks, and Apple are not going anywhere but up. Jobs' replacement has already been at the job since January.



And Jobs is not leaving completely but will still be hanging on advising and trying to spend his hundreds of millions to get his health back, what with a recent liver replacement and pancreatic cancer and helping the CIA/NSC/TSA defeat the concept or possibility of "privacy" in the Orwellian world of today. Remember, new investors, "Buy low, sell high." That's all one needs to know to capitalize on stock trades. Lows only come on bad news or when things are new. And one never really knows when the high has been reached (until after the fact with 20/20 hindsight).

• Steve Jobs Resigns: Nothing Changes‎ (PC Mag)
• It Took Me 13 Years To Understand Steve Jobs
• Steve Jobs: Smart Move Resigning Now

CIA illegally helps NYPD become "Big Brother"

• NYPD, aided by CIA, secretly monitors citizens
• NYPD CIA operations conducted in Secret for years
• Absolute: The NYPD and the CIA dislike the fact that you
• Pres. Cheney begged Emperor Bush to dump Powell, waterboard, and bomb Syria, then got Israel to do it instead: Memoir
  
  

Judaism: God and Gays cause Earthquakes

(LINK) Rabbi Levin provides Biblical and Rabbinical citations that connect disasters in general, such as earthquakes and floods (tsunamis) in particular to gay sex...

"G-D shakes the Earth because gays shake their male members where they shouldn't," according to Jewish (Old Testament) scholar Rabbi Yehuda Levin ("The Fear Kashes" on blip.tv; see full video below from the archives of the Rabbi's weekly radio program are heard on 6.20 AM (in NYC) every Sunday night from 12:00 to 1:00 am.



Many fundamentalist Christians, whose religion is intricately tied to Judaism, agree.

• NOM speaker blames East Coast earthquake on Gays
  
  
• Homosexuals cause of Earthquakes in Israel
  
  

FULL VIDEO: "G-D, Homosexuality, & Earthquakes"

(YourSupremeBeing) August 24, 2011 - Using biblical passages, Rabbi Yehuda Levin tries to blame east coast earthquakes (Virginia, DC, New York City and Haiti, Dominican Republic) on God's wrath against homosexuals and gay marriage.



Using this logic, one could show that God hates Jews even more than he hates homosexuals. In actuality, God does not hate anybody. Maybe Rabbi Yehuda Levin does. But he notes that he does not dislike gay people. And he is not the only one to read Judeo-Christian scripture in this way.



The New York rabbi claims gay marriage and the earthquake that shook the East Coast last Tuesday are directly connected. In a video uploaded to YouTube (and soon taken down as "hate speech"), Levin says gay rights legislation, like the gay marriage law passed in New York, are responsible for earthquakes, like the one that just struck Virginia/Washington, D.C.



"The Talmud states, 'You have shaken your male member in a place where it doesn't belong. I, too, will shake the Earth,'" Levin says. "We don't hate homosexuals," he says. "I feel bad for homosexuals. It's a revolt against God and, literally, there's hell to pay."

Ethan Nichtern comes to Los Angeles (video)

(Mark Molaro) Inspiring interview with Ethan Nichtern, founder and director of the Interdependence Project (The ID Project) in New York City and author of the new book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence. This is a fascinating and personal discussion of Nichtern's idea of interdependence, as well as an enlightening conversation about Eastern philosophies in general, such as Buddhism and meditation. Nichtern talks about a strong worldwide desire for a new social consciousness that properly balances inner peace with informed civic and social engagement and responsibility.

• The Mindful Social Network: Going Online Without Losing Your Mind
• 10-week Buddhism study course with Ethan Nichtern and Sharon Salzberg
• "Seeing Clearly in a City of Illusion" with
  
• Shastri Ethan Nichtern at Shambhala WLA
• Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:30 - 7:00 pm
• $15.00 general public, $10.00 (members, seniors, students)
• Public sitting at 4:00-5:00 pm, talk begins at 5:30 pm

United Nations celebrates Buddha (NY)

Wisdom Quarterly
Monastics gather on stage (phathoc.net)

Wisdom Quarterly's spiritual adviser, Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D. Abbot of Long Beach's California Bodhi Vihara, addressed the UN General Assembly in May. Mr. Palitha Kohona was presiding, and hundreds of Buddhist monks and nuns were in attendance. They participated in a traditional procession (perahera) on the streets of New York outside the UN marking the 2,600th anniversary of the Buddha's enlightenment (Buddha Jayanti).

Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D., abbot of Bodhi Mission (Bangladeshi Theravada), Long Beach, CA

(Namal2600)

Covered extensively on Sri Lankan TV, the May 23, 2011 commemoration began with an alms walk with nearly 200 monks and nuns of many nationalities dressed in saffron robes walking several blocks in New York City into Dag Hammerskjold Park. There devout Buddhists dressed in white offered alms food to the monastics. Almsround (pindapata) is a tradition encouraged by the Buddha and Buddhists for 26 centuries.

Nuns devoted to peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh

• "Angel Wars" Steve Quayle on CoastToCoastAM.com
• Portuguese Buddhism (Associacao Meditar de Cuiaba)
• The Life of the Buddha in Vietnamese art

The anniversary of the Buddha's enlightenment was commemorated in the US at the United Nations General Assembly for the first time ever on May 16, 2011. The event was organized by the diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.

• SRI LANKAN NEWS COVERAGE: Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV
• VIDEO: Jade Buddha Mun cultural dance
  

Buffalo (New York) Yoga Fest

Anicka Edwards

Yoga is truly for everyone -- from those who are mildly curious to those who are deeply into the yoga lifestyle, kids included. Need more strength? Maybe better concentration? Or what about connecting body, mind, and spirit? Need to be elevated and taken into a new dimension? Whether we practice yoga in the comfort of our home, at a neighborhood yoga center, or on Sundays at the Inner Harbor, there is no escaping a phenomenon that has swept through the country. More

• Live Life with Yoga Weekend (New Jersey)
• Therapy: Incest is never "consensual" (CNN/RAINN)
• Laughter Yoga helps paralyzed teen (Toronto Sun)
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"Karma to Nirvana" premiers at NY filmfest

NEW YORK (April 27, 2011) “Karma to Nirvana,” the second installment in chef Vikas Khanna’s Holy Kitchens documentary series will premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival, the longest-running and most prestigious Indian film festival in the US, on May 7.

“At any given time somewhere on Earth, people are gathering to share food in the name of God. This is spiritual sustenance, meant to bring us closer together and closer to the Creator,” says Khanna, whose new Manhattan restaurant, Junoon, recently received two stars in its New York Times review.

“This is the story of Holy Kitchens,” adds Khanna saying he was compelled to explore the symbiotic intersection of food and religion in his documentary series by Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy: “God comes to the hungry in the form of food.”

“Karma to Nirvana,” focuses specifically on Hinduism, Lord Krishna’s spiritual practices, and the principles of Karma and Nirvana as set forth in the Bhagavad-Gita. More

Karma: The New Revolution

A new film titled Karma: The New Revolution explains the role of Karma in golfer Tiger Woods’ apology. It explains the role karma played in the death of entertainment icon Michael Jackson and highlights how Karma Yoga has helped individuals overcome the credit crunch, cancer, and crime. Filmed in over a dozen countries, it is presented by Acharya Zen, who was reportedly quoted as saying: Karma and redemption go hand in hand and in Verse 173 of The Dhammapada, the Buddha states that "a person who makes amends for mistakes can light up the world like the Moon emerging from clouds." This suggests that Tiger Woods can redeem himself by following the Buddha’s last words "Be lamps unto yourselves" (Appo deepo bhava) or, as the film's tagline runs, “Take Charge of your Destiny!”

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