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Dalai Lama, Diet, Theosophy, Steiner and Ghosts - spiritual newsletter june 2009

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The Dalai Lama interviewed by Raghavan Iyer shortly after leaving Tibet
What is our Aim?, Radha Burnier

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Added by Katinka Hesselink on June 2, 2009 at 4:38am — 12 Comments

Honesty, authenticity and truth... harder than it sounds

Speaking the truth is one of the spiritual values that is traditional. I think perhaps that it's repeated so often in Buddhist and other religious literature, because it is such a very hard thing to practice.

The central question is: is it always kindness to speak the truth? And if it's not - how does one know when to speak the truth, and when to lie kindly?

I've written several blogposts about this question.

The first one asks the question:… Continue

Added by Katinka Hesselink on March 23, 2009 at 9:06am — 1 Comment