Lotus

It is filled with green lily pads, purple lotus, white blooming flowers, and koi fishes of different colors, some orange, others mixed with white. The fountain marks the center of the courtyard. Around it is the north, east, south, and west wing rooms, which create a four-sided enclosure. The north…

Today began at The Evergreen State College parking lot at 8:43 a.m. where I met the rest of the class in front of the vans. At this time, the weather was extremely cloudy/foggy and 55 F. As I looked around the parking lot, I noted some spring flowers (I believe to be camas) beginning to bloom, clover, dandelions and numerous buds chirping. We left campus by 9:05 a.m. and from there we headed towards the Seattle History Museum with the goal of learning more about the Pacific Northwest’s history…

Components of mindfulness meditation Empirical research has recently shown that there are several mechanisms or components through which MM exerts its effects. These four mechanisms are attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and a change in perspective of the self. According to Holzel et al. (2011) attention regulation especially in regards to executive attention and conflict monitoring is often developed early in the practice, and a certain degree of attention is also…

Chinese New Year is a wonderful occasion for families to gather and reunite with each other. Besides that, everyone is hoping for a good fortune in the year ahead. However, do you know everything you do is associated with luck and prosperity? Here are the some vital customs and superstitions that lead you to a prosperous year and avoid the embarrassment when you are visiting other houses. Don’t: 1. Wearing the black colour shirt Chinese people believe that, the red colour is an good omen and…

Any time a person is dreaming and she or he understands their dreaming it's called a lucid dream. When a strange dream makes a person stop and question reality is when it typically occurs. Lucid dreaming has an interesting aspect to it, and it's the ability to regulate the dream and make some other reality in the dream state, which is the reason why lots of people learn the fundamental lucid dreaming steps. A lot of cultures from ancient times took lucid dreaming very seriously. For instance,…

Dhillon, Kamal. Black and Blue Sari. Lotus Speaking, 2009. (292 pages) Black and Blue Sari (2009), by Kamal Dhillon, is about a true story of a young girl’s journey of overcoming her abusive husband. As a single mother of four children, the author felt that it was her mission to spread awareness about domestic violence because she too has been through a rough past dealing with an abusive husband, 11 years to be exact. Using her platform as a way to help others in the same situation as she was,…

brings spells of coolness in the scorching heat. However rainstorms can bring about destruction as well, So monsoons in a way symbolizes promise with a speck of threat. Ray builds up this narrative beautifully accompanied by a montage of images of lotus flowers, dark clouds and tiny aquatic insects, connoting change. Ray has crafted a rich cinematic experience for the viewers into the lives of his protagonists and engages with them to experience their joys and sorrows. The two characters that…

China is a very delicate country, they have a lot of foods from their country and a lot of food traditions. China’s delicacy menu consists of appetizers like fried wonton, fried rangoon, fantail shrimp, potstickers, shrimp toast, bar-b-q spare ribs, and satay beef. Their soup menu consists of soups like hot and sour soup, wonton soup, chicken sizzling rice soup, and shrimp sizzling rice soup. Their vegetables menu consists of veggies similar to ours, mixed vegetables, snow pea pods with water…

everything that they needed, good clothes, houses, food, and financial progress, but after war their lives got twisted ‘inside out’, they had to skedaddle their homes. In Inside Out And Back Again page 1 stanza 2, it says, “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes even underneath”. In ‘Children of War’ by Arthur Brice, real refugee kids talk about their experience, “After the war started, you could not even go out of your house. I had to crawl through…

It should be applied with full wisdom. There are no further details about fairness in the Lotus Sutra, neither given by the interviewed person. It is highly linked to moderation and comprehension, whereas Buddhists should not spend money in extreme ways, they should be fair in dealing with other human beings from different racial, religious and…