Giving Meditation a Spin (p)(f) As our big demographic bulge of boomers hits the years when mortality truly starts to sink in, Asian spirituality has suddenly become more mainstream than ever. ( Coincidenza? as Father Guido Sarducci might ask.) Some 10 million Americans say they meditate. Yoga is a $3 billion market. Jan 23, 2007 in Public bookmarkswith buddhismhealth
Pancasila - The Lay Five Precepts (Buddhism) (p)(f) Pañcaśīla (Sanskrit) or Pañcasīla (Pāli) is the fundamental code of Buddhist ethics, willingly undertaken by lay followers of Gautama Buddha. The term is Pāli for "Five Virtues" (Five Rules or Precepts of Virtue) and is pronounced roughly "puntshaseela". in Public bookmarkswith buddhism
Vegetarianism in Buddhism (p)(f) The first lay precept in Buddhism is usually translated as “I undertake the precept to refrain from taking life.” Many see this as implying that Buddhists should not eat the meat of animals. However, this is not necessarily the case. There is a divergence of views within Buddhism on the need for vegetarianism, with the majority of schools of Buddhism rejecting such a claimed need. … A minority of Mahayana Buddhists, however, strongly oppose meat-eating.Wikipedia in Public bookmarkswith buddhismvegetarianism