News Round Up for w/e 5ht March 2023
News and Snippets from Zen Cyber-Space
This week from Zen Cyberspace, scientific studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain and water also confirmed to be wet.

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No Worries Sylvia Boorstein addresses a mental affliction we don’t often talk about in spiritual terms. It’s a big problem for her, and maybe for you—worrying.
‘Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam peacefully co-existed in Bhanbhore’ Dr Valeria Piacentini Fiorani has been a professor (now retired) of history and institutions of the...
Buddhistdoor View: We’ll Get the AI We Deserve A New York Times tech reporter’s unsettling conclusion to his chat with Microsoft’s Sydney, an AI chatbot built into the Bing search engine, which exhibits some rather disturbing attributes that are a far cry from traditional dystopian visions of AI.
The science and art of controlling a restless mind Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
Legendary Jazz Saxophonist and Nichiren Buddhist Wayne Shorter Dies Aged 89 The pioneering American jazz musician Wayne Shorter, a longtime practitioner of Nichiren Buddhism and a member of Soka Gakkai International, who was renowned for his