http://buddhisthappiness.com Information about buddhism and well being. daily 1 http://buddhisthappiness.com/788006-Spiritual-Pathways.html Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:47 -0800 My name is Naya and my spiritual path started, well before I was born really, but in my memory it really took hold when I was about five. Something happened to me that made me question the existence of God and my purpose on Earth. I was attending vacation bible school and when I asked my teacher how she knew God existed she became angry and made me stand in the corner while the other kids played.I didn't know what I did wrong, but I became absolutely certain of one thing. She couldn't tell me ho... http://buddhisthappiness.com/788006-Spiritual-Pathways.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/991105-Common-Scents-For-Emotional-Well-Being.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:51:51 -0800 Aromatics which include essential oils, perfume, centredcandles and incense, have been used for centuries to affect themind and also, ultimately, the body in a positive a Thispractice finds its origins in religion and primitive beliefs.Aboriginal Australians burned the leaves of eucalyptus tofumigate an area from viruses. Aboriginal Americans use sage andcedar and the Slavs, such plants as sunflower, pine and garlicpeels for the same purposes. This was done because occult powerswere thought to ... http://buddhisthappiness.com/991105-Common-Scents-For-Emotional-Well-Being.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/964086-Payday-Advance-Service-Talks-About-The-Advantages-and-Disadvantages-Of-Online-Loans.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:02:02 -0800 Portland, Tennessee - Feb. , : PMNewswiretoday.com -- paydayloans are a temporary loan, commonly for a relatively low amount, that a person will take out for the purpose of addressing immediate or emergency bills. Conventionally, pay day loans have been provided by brick and mortar businesses. Now, however, there are increasingly more Internet-based payday advance loan providers than in past times.These fast loans are often utilized low to middle class consumers as a way to pay for an expense p... http://buddhisthappiness.com/964086-Payday-Advance-Service-Talks-About-The-Advantages-and-Disadvantages-Of-Online-Loans.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/421432-Church-Planting-in-Cambodia.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:10:59 -0800 A scarred past.In Cambodia, a church might consist of Christians gathered beneath a sugar palm, its trunk still bearing shrapnel scars from the battles that have been fought around it. Or it might be worshippers who congregate in the house of a specially trained church planter. In either case, Cambodian Christians cannot erase the deep scars that have been left by decades of brutal violence. Years of atrocities and political turmoil have gouged out a spiritual void in the hearts of Cambodians.... http://buddhisthappiness.com/421432-Church-Planting-in-Cambodia.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/654702-Family-Well-Being-Promised-To-Christians.html Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:53:35 -0800 There are too many Scriptures to cite here which show that wecan pray in faith for our family. Over and over again, we aretold that it will go well with our children. These manyScriptures demonstrate the great fact that our families areincluded in the promises from God to Abraham. The Abrahamic covenant included four great blessings. They werehealing, prosperity, and family well being in addition tosalvation. Over four hundred years later, God added the Mosaic Law to theblessing promises in the ... http://buddhisthappiness.com/654702-Family-Well-Being-Promised-To-Christians.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/130961-Prosperity-Harmonious-Well-Being.html Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:59:37 -0800 Prosperity & Harmonious Well-Being Any country to prosper needs:stability, safety, justice and respect. The terms above, as mostof the terms, have multiple interpretations. We needed to definewhat each one means, in the present matter: Stability don'talter the rules in the middle of the game! Stable market pricesof services, of energy and of components. Stable customstaxes. Stable laws. Safety doesn't have war, violence,inundations, epidemics and earthquakes. Justice. Efficiency.Speed of judicia... http://buddhisthappiness.com/130961-Prosperity-Harmonious-Well-Being.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/128454-Focus-Your-Body-and-Your-Physical-Well-Being.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:01:59 -0800 About a week ago, on a beautiful early winter day, I was outjogging in the foothills south of my house. The morning air wasclear, cold, and crisp, and the deep blue sky was sparkling withgolden sunlight. The gentle hills around me, the ruggedmountains in the distance, and the valley far below me werecovered in a glistening white cloak of new-fallen snow. My kindof day--I love winter, and I was in heaven!About a mile into my run, my euphoria was suddenly shattered bya sharp stabbing pain in my le... http://buddhisthappiness.com/128454-Focus-Your-Body-and-Your-Physical-Well-Being.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/693988-Andrew-Sandon.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:56:15 -0800 America in a Religious ContextToday American society is faced with very interesting and controversial problem concerning religion and its status on the state level. For a long time it has been considered that America is religiously diverse country which Constitution protects the freedom of religious denomination. Nevertheless, God is not accepted as the creator on the government level. If God does not exist why we talk about religious diversity and fight for equal religious rights and religious ... http://buddhisthappiness.com/693988-Andrew-Sandon.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/470863-The-Great-Pyramid-Part-Two.html Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:48:52 -0800 The location of the Great Pyramid at the centre of the Earth'sland masses, unless it is truly a coincidence, implies thefollowing. First, its builders knew the geography and size ofthe Earth quite accurately because they could not otherwisecalculate the correct centre of land - masses. Second, theychose Egypt because the centre is there It would be quitecoincidental that they were Egyptian as well., and this meansthat Ancient Egyptian civilization may have arisen because oflingering cultural in... http://buddhisthappiness.com/470863-The-Great-Pyramid-Part-Two.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/926440-Ghosts-vs-Demons.html Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:54:13 -0800 As a ghost hunter and paranormal investigator, I have had myshare of experiences with ghosts. I have also had my share ofpeople asking me how I know it was a ghost that made thoseexperiences happen. My response goes something like, 'when I getmy hair pulled, my shirt pulled or I get pushed and, whenturning around there is no one there, its hard for me to saythat its not a ghost. When performing an investigation, I knowwhere the other members of the group are and the realizationthat I was touche... http://buddhisthappiness.com/926440-Ghosts-vs-Demons.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/575348-The-Mystical-Nature-of-Names.html Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:22:15 -0800 The Mystical Nature of NamesUntil relatively recently it was not a common practice to useyour given name among strangers; instead a pseudonym was usedfor public display. It was once widely believed that sorcery andwitchcraft could be performed upon a person's true name in orderto control that person or have power over them. The use of givennames was reserved for close friends and confidants. Medieval demonologists believed that to know the true name of ademon was to have power over it. This is a... http://buddhisthappiness.com/575348-The-Mystical-Nature-of-Names.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/666521-Love-yourself-and-Watch.html Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:46:50 -0800 Love Yourself and Watch - The DhammapadaTo love yourself is the first step to developing spiritually. Wehave been told to love others but not to love ourselves. This isa very harmful piece of advice and we will get into trouble ifwe attempt to follow it.We have been told that if we love ourselves we will develop abig ego, become a narcissist and so forth. However the exactopposite is true. Watch the do-gooders, the people who servesociety, the politicians, the missionaries, and the socialworkers... http://buddhisthappiness.com/666521-Love-yourself-and-Watch.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/566997-Current-Cambodia-s-Prevalent-Diarrheas-and-My-Simplified-Resolutions.html Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:30:27 -0800 Evolving world is immeasurably facilitating peoples livelihood, especially people living in the western world. Simultaneously, many negative points are persistently attacking Third World and Developing countries, mostly in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I was immensely taken aback after I saw UNDPs report; more than a billion people still live on less than US a day. Being one of the citizens living in Cambodia, one of the worlds most desperate countries, I have encountered many socia... http://buddhisthappiness.com/566997-Current-Cambodia-s-Prevalent-Diarrheas-and-My-Simplified-Resolutions.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/841010-Searchers-Follow-Ancient-Traditions.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:49:08 -0800 In the past year percent of all Americans age and overused approximately form of complementary color and optionpractice of medicine to deal with illness. These therapies rangefrom acupuncture to herbs, from stress relieving meditation tobotanical products, and have in park that they ar not presentlyconsidered part of conventional music. The recent survey of, Americans conducted by the Centre for Disease Control andthe Subject Center field for Complementary and AlternativeMedicine Homea Institu... http://buddhisthappiness.com/841010-Searchers-Follow-Ancient-Traditions.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/606523-First-An-Atheist-Then-An-Agnostic-And-Now-A-Believer.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:32:35 -0800 I have always been an enthusiastic reader. When I was very youngI got caught up in reading books about religion, mythology,etc.. By the time I was seven I had read both the old andnew testaments of the bible, dozens of books about Hinduism,Buddhism, Islamism and numerous books about ancient mythology.Being very young I knew nothing about shades of grey and saweverything in black and white. Therefore, I decided thateverything religious was myth and that there could be no god.There was no way the... http://buddhisthappiness.com/606523-First-An-Atheist-Then-An-Agnostic-And-Now-A-Believer.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/664739-Love-and-Light.html Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:17:02 -0800 Seems that everyone who writes to me signs their letters loveand light. It has such a bright uplifting sound to it.Lightworkers are being taught to hold the energy of the lightand to equate love with a warm white light that heals andprotects. After what feels like an age of suppression anddarkness, it all sounds like such a refreshing change, much likethe first bits of sunlight after a long harsh winter. And so thependulum swings. Still we do not find balance.Years ago a man came to speak at our... http://buddhisthappiness.com/664739-Love-and-Light.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/371219-Discovering-Honest-Bad-Credit-Consumer-Offerings.html Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:46:39 -0800 : Section-Loans Press Release Miamisburg, Ohio Prcompass.comIf you are looking for Bad Credit Loan you definitely are not alone at all. Every month there are millions of shoppers trying to acquire the optimal deal plausible. With a keen loan plan your finances are able to perform pretty well, regardless if you make the blunder of selecting the inappropriate credit line package you could locate yourself sinking in debt a lot quicker than you really thought. In order to actually put the restric... http://buddhisthappiness.com/371219-Discovering-Honest-Bad-Credit-Consumer-Offerings.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/139640-Women-s-Intuition.html Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:53:52 -0800 WOMENS INTUITION: The propaganda against the Jews may have originally beenfomented by the Benjaminites who had been thrown out of the HolyLand by the people of Israel. The House of Judah or Merovingianshad their Phoenician Hyksos kin-folks take these eliteoverlords to Arcadia in Greece and they went many other placeswhere their trading empires were already established after that. The Golden Bough is a central resource for any student ofreligion and magic. In it we see Plutarch and other scholar... http://buddhisthappiness.com/139640-Women-s-Intuition.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/811882-Psychology-Philosophy-and-the-Paranormal.html Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:48:01 -0800 Beginning in when I first decided to become a ghosthunter, it never occurred to me that I would end up quitting myjob and focusing strictly on paranormal investigation. This hasbecome my new career. I made this decision after a series ofoccurrences while investigating some buildings and, having noexplanation for these occurrences, decided to search for ananswer.Today, over ten years later, I have discovered that there is noanswer...just more questions. This led me to again attempt todiscover w... http://buddhisthappiness.com/811882-Psychology-Philosophy-and-the-Paranormal.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/509716-Will-the-Angels-Abandon-Us.html Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:43:36 -0800 If we don't behave according to a specific church's doctrine,will our guardian angels turn their backs on us? If we arestruggling with our overall belief in God or we're questioningthe validity of the holy books, will the angels abandon us? Whatif we believe in God and in the Bible, but we just feel likescrewing off for awhile? Will they desert us? Do we have to begood and pure and perfect in order for angels to look after us?I can only speak from my own experience. I was not raised in achurch b... http://buddhisthappiness.com/509716-Will-the-Angels-Abandon-Us.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/589642-The-Paradox-of-One-And-Many-in-Aikido-Philosophy.html Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:12:29 -0800 Read about how we can better appreciate, empathize with, andrespect the diverse people, energies, and opinions that we comein contact with on a daily basis.My Aikido teacher Koichi Tohei sensei used to say that in ahealthy person the flow of their ki the energy inherentthroughout the Universe is like the outpouring of anunderground spring sitting at the bottom of a deep lake. Thespring feeds water to the lake, much like we can feed theuniverse healing energy. The spring feeds the lake a constant... http://buddhisthappiness.com/589642-The-Paradox-of-One-And-Many-in-Aikido-Philosophy.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/136201-Why-I-Became-SDA.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:44:37 -0800 This essay will be in a couple of parts. It is not intended tobe a heavily theological or apologetic work, just an outline ofhow I became a Seventh-day Adventist. Let me introduce myself by telling you a bit of my history. Irecently earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from UCLA. Ihave a B.S. in Chemistry from Fresno State University.I became a Seventh-Day Adventist after converting toChristianity in college. Before that, I was a Chan a.k.a. ZenBuddhist for about a decade. I became a Chan Budd... http://buddhisthappiness.com/136201-Why-I-Became-SDA.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/138812-Integrating-Soul-and-Science.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:55:11 -0800 Spirit is beyond the void of space. This realm, beyond thevoid, is not an empty nothingness; it is the womb of creation.-- Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars, acluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought...That place is Spirit. The idea of thought coming from Spirit is a little general andnot something I agree with unless he means REAL thought ratherthan regurgitated thought. Deepak Chopra is a great andwonderful human being who escaped the material com... http://buddhisthappiness.com/138812-Integrating-Soul-and-Science.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/441792-Methods-to-Avoid-Commonly-Witnessed-Automobile-Financing-Blunders.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:33:12 -0800 Sometimes when people sign up for auto finance, the result is they owe more than they had realized. The monthly installments have the potential to be too high for most people to pay so they will begin missing a payment or two and ultimately end up defaulting. Such people almost instantly notice their credit score drop. Getting a loan with reasonable terms is difficult once the credit score gets down to such a low number. So as to avoid this, you need to take it upon yourself to know your way ar... http://buddhisthappiness.com/441792-Methods-to-Avoid-Commonly-Witnessed-Automobile-Financing-Blunders.html http://buddhisthappiness.com/823688-Two-Kinds-of-Religions.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:46:36 -0800 Hollywood has brought another controversial film to thetable, The Kingdom of Heaven. This is Hollywood's version ofthe historical Catholic crusades that took place approximatelya thousand years ago. This is as good a time as any to further the controversy. So instaying with the topic of religion, I would like to state that Ibelieve there are only two kinds of religions in the world. First, there is the religion that teaches one must earn one'sway to heaven. Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Isl... http://buddhisthappiness.com/823688-Two-Kinds-of-Religions.html