Zen

When I think of Anderson Paak., a soulful recording artist and mastermind producer, I picture California. After one’s the first listen of Paak.’s critically acclaimed album, Malibu, if they had never stepped foot on Californian soil, they could instantly be taken away to a Southern California beach, where they could feel the sand between their toes and the breeze toying with their hair, during a day with perfect weather of a seventy-four degrees. With a deeper look at Anderson’s cultural…

There are cultures all over the world that while they have contrasting beliefs, they have a similar story of a god in an egg which creates the world and universe within. These beliefs have been transferred through generations of hymns, chants, and written records. Similar cosmogonic traditions are almost parallel in China, Tahiti, India, Africa, Finland, Greece,. According to Sir Isaac Newton, “God is able to create Particles of Matter of several Sizes and Figures, and in several Proportions to…

but they fail to recognize as to why they are working towards to it. In this case, mindfulness has made Laurene to shift her attention and awareness towards the present and has helped her to embrace it. Like this, Donna Karan, the founder of Urban Zen and the author of the article “ To Find Calm In the Chaos”, explains the main purpose of her life: to be calm and happy with her family. When her husband died, Donna tried to give him a christmas gift of 10 acres to build a house. This was an…

Ultimately, intense modifications in the sensorium, the sense of “self,” and the experience of reality are all experienced throughout the phase up until the presence of the hallucinogen is no longer present in the body (Volkow 2016, Alonso 2015). A very similar process occurs when a dissociative drug is ingested, like PCP (Phencyclidine), ketamine, and dextromethorphan, but instead, events of respiratory depression, heart rate abnormalities, and a withdrawal syndrome can occur while the user…

Stressing academic success is not good for children Every parent has their own way of caring and nurturing their children. There are different societies in which we live in and they have their peculiar way of developing kids. Chinese mothers are the one who gives a maximum attention to their kids and at the same time, they have humongous expectation from their kids. They are often labelled as a strict parent who wants 100% result for their child under given circumstances. Does the strict nature…

Especially sencha and other delicate green tea. Instead, bring water to a boil then let it sit for 2-3 minutes. Water temp should be around 60-80 C. The optimum brewing temperature for Gyokuro is 50 -60 C and Sencha is 70-90 C. For Bancha, Genmaicha and Houjicha is 100 C. The second step is put roughly 2 teaspoonfuls of tea leaves into a teapot. The best quality for Gyokuro is about 10g, Sencha is 8g. For Bancha, Genmaicha and Houjicha is 9g. After that, pour the hot water from the…

A nucleic acid is a polymer that is made up of smaller units called nucleotides. These nucleotides play a significant role in creating important structures found in our body such as deoxyribonucleic acid, more commonly referred to as DNA, and ribonucleic acid or RNA. (Erster, Lecture 4 Chapter 5) Ribonucleic acid is then categorized into two types of RNA: mRNA and tRNA (there are other types but the ones mainly discussed in protein synthesis only involved these two). The DNA and RNA are partners…

this restoration serves as the significant turning point of Lingyin Temple. “Chan Master”, Mater Yongming Yanshou is assigned to rebuild Lingyin temple with larger scale and magnificent decoration.The temple was regarded as one of the "Five Chan (Zen) Mountains" of the south in Song Dynasty. The monk quantity in Lingyin Temple reaches to over 3,000 at one time. Till Qing Dynasty, under the leadership of Chan Master Jude for nearly two decades, Lingyin Temple is widely recognized as the most…

Period is seen in many different ways as a sense of refinement. For any man who wanted to reach the highest levels of Momoyama society, tea was the way to achieve that. At one point in time, it was seen as a national sacrament that was carried out by Zen priests. (Brown 339) Tea has been seen as a way to resolve political tensions and a way to openly express those political tensions to one another. The Kyoto ceramic tea…

Combined chemical and biological control of Fusarium and nematode species associated with Eldana saccharina in sugarcane Introduction Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidea) is a serious pest in maize, sorghum and in all sugarcane regions of South Africa. It is an African native with a wide distribution within South Africa and has a number of natural hosts including the water sedges Cyperus dives and Cyperus papyrus (Assefa et al., 2008; Webster et al., 2005; Rutherford, 2015). The…