HE NEEDS A MONITOR!

What’s the most jaw-droppingly stupid thing you could do if you’re on trial for attempting to steal computer equipment? Ask Jon Eipp.
His strange story began with burglar alarms at Portal Publications in Novato, California, just north of San Francisco. Police rushed to the scene and caught Eipp, 39, and an accomplice running away, leaving an [...]

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SAVE IT FOR HALLOWEEN!

As fantasies go, Jose Santiago, Jr., had a rather strange one. Too bad he decided to act it out.
One Sunday evening in April 2006, the 33-year-old decided his hometown of Gurnee, Illinois, could use one more cop. Guess who? It would help his charade that he had bought an old police car — a 1999 [...]

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BEFORE THE SUN SETS, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!

Though restless and battered by complex problems, disillusioned and dissatisfied, many of us continue to remain engrossed with the exterior. Whereas, undeterred by social pressures, the Bauls, saffron-clad folk singers of rural Bengal, sing on “Why do you run after mirages? Look within yourself to attain happiness and tranquillity. Peace does not come from outside. [...]

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THE WAR WITHIN!!

The conflict that rages within is an integral part of all of us. It is the war between good and bad, right and wrong, hate or love, mercy or vengeance, want and need, lust and relationship and much more. It starts the very moment we open our eyes and enter this world and it continues [...]

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LOVE YOURSELF

Relationships are how we relate to others. We have a relationship with everyone that we know and who is close to us. This is not reserved for our family or someone who we are involved with. Every interaction we have with another is the act of relating.
If we have a problem relating to others, [...]

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WHEN SILENCE BECOMES THE MEDIUM OF PROFUNDITY

Seers in the subcontinent have laid great emphasis on the concept of mauna as an ideal trigger for introspection and reflection.
Derived from the word muni that refers to an ascetic who practises silence, mauna ideally symbo-lises a state of oneness with the Self.
Sankara described this state as one of the three essential attributes of [...]

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PLACE OTHER THAN HEAVEN

Beijing: Standing in the courtyard of the Temple of Heaven with the rain pouring down on my hastily acquired flimsy umbrella, the crowds of tourists viewed through sheets of water appeared to me like receding ghosts. On either side of the circular hall of prayer for good harvests – washed clean to reveal a brilliant [...]

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CELEBRATE FORGIVENESS !!

Kshamavani Parva celebrates forgiveness as a way to a life of love, friendship, peace and harmony. When you forgive, you stop feeling resentful; there is no more indignation or anger against another for a perceived offence, difference or mistake; there is no clamour for punishment. It means the end of violence.
Jains classify forgiveness as: [...]

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HEY RAM!!!

Hey Ram! With these last words, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi breathed his last. What would he have thought of the current controversy over the historicity or otherwise of Ram, the epic hero?
It would be interesting to ask: What is the historicity of the wind or cosmos? Behind visual reality, there exists something one can call [...]

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