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Buddhism and Judaism share a bounty of common practices.

As Jesus and Buddha have been remembered, they both had a common starting point for their preaching: the sufferings that all humans (though some more than others) have to face: the inadequacies, the perplexities, the insufficiencies, the diminishments, the pains and disappointments that darken human existence.

The presence of an authentic advocate like a Muslim chaplain can be empowering for Muslim patients and families.

One typical but currently out of favor response (among academics at least) to doctrinal differences separating religions has been to reduce the welter of contrary doctrinal formations to an essential teaching, a kind of ‘superdoctrine,’ such as “All religions are true,” or “All religions point to the Absolute.”

We are all connected, through the air we breathe, the land we walk on, and the beauty of the earth that supports each one of us from the moment we are born until the moment we die.

In order to understand the mandala principle, we have to go way back to the beginning, to the basic split.

One of the oldest stone aged artifacts ever to have been discovered is a small statue of a heavy breasted, full-bodied woman carved out of limestone.

Let’s develop a sense of trusting the inner refuge – trusting more in this moment, trusting in the source.