Zeitgeist Resurrected

May 26, 2012 By Comments

Zeitgeist is a German word meaning “spirit time.” It refers to the spirit of the time we are living in. Zeitgeist resurrected refers to the video below, Zeitgeist Moving Forward from 2011, as my previous post on Thich Nhat Hanh On Government and Governments Need Mindfulness – Not Enemies. Please watch this video with a [...]

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Thich Nhat Hanh On Government

May 23, 2012 By Comments

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh spoke on governments and said, “In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” Is this what happened on [...]

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Governments Need Mindfulness – Not Enemies

May 22, 2012 By Comments
Thich Nhat Hanh in Vancouver in 2011

You may be wondering why a website devoted to meditation practices would have something about how governments need mindfulness – not enemies. Read on and you will find out how and why. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has been a peace activist in the world since 1964. At that time, his goal was to put [...]

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