Aug 8, 2021

News Round Up w/e 8th August 2021

News and snippets from Zen cyber-space

This week from Zen Cyber space, how mindfulness is showing up at the Olympic Games, podcast debut from the Dalai Lama and Buddhists monks help join the effort against Covid.

Thai Buddhist Monks Join Frontline Workers to Fight COVID-19 Thailand's cases continue to rise after a recent outbreak. Plus, local authorities forcibly shut down a Tibetan monastery in China's Gansu Province, and three well-known Buddhists celebrate their birthdays.

The Zen of Peter Coyote - Actor, writer, narrator, and one-time radical — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong on the many roles of Zen priest Peter Coyote.'

How Mindfulness is Showing up at the Olympic Games - Here are some of the ways mindfulness is taking center stage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The Life-Changing Words of Mary Oliver The beloved late poet Mary Oliver Oliver was known for her poems that contemplate the relationship between nature and spirituality. In this Lion’s Roar archive article, Rick Bass looks at Oliver’s poem "The Summer Day," which asks, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Podcast Debut with His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama - Episode One

The Final Truth - She gave birth to twins, but only one survived. Kate Inglis on how, when a body dies, love is the final truth it leaves behind.

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