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Even as we see exhilarating portraits of Olympics and other 鈥済lorious鈥� events in the world, I find it hard not to notice that there is still much suffering in this world (including in the favelas where the trickle down beneficial effect of Olympics i

A singular, very impactful intellectual shift that comes through meditation is the heightened sensitivity to initial conditions. This is the corollary to valorizing kindness over rightness. In the absence of a Creator God, universal chaos reigns.

Buddhist thought is slowly seeping into the vernacular of of the so-called western world.

I've been doing a lot of editing lately for a big project. I'd written the first drafts thinking a certain way about how the text should read, what it should convey. I sent it off to the client who liked it, but then asked for edits.

Yes. I admit it. I was one of the people who saw Pokemon Go launch in the United States and then waited expectantly for it to be available in Canada.

鈥�. or perhaps it is all just a generational thing. There certainly appears to have been a significant generational divide in Britain鈥檚 vote to leave the EU.

A few years ago we were planning a meeting and we sat down to look at all the options before us. We had met on a number of occasions and thought through every minute of the meeting. We were very sure that all the bases were covered.

The city is gaining a surprising number of cannabis dispensaries recently. But maybe that shouldn鈥檛 be a surprise. The wisdom of the drug war is finally coming under intense scrutiny, for good reason.

Are there solutions to issues such as homelessness, addiction, poverty, and overstressed mental health services? 鈥淎 decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization,鈥� wrote Samuel Johnson .

It seems that every day we are assailed with news from every corner of the globe that threatens to overwhelm many aspects of our lives and possibly destroy the world we know.