December 9th, 2007 cate
If you’re in the the southern California area, check out the Eco Gift Expo being held in Santa Monica next weekend. It’s a large-scale eco-conscious gift show that provides people with an uplifting experience and a solution to the difficult emotions, inconveniences and terrible waste associated with the holidays and holiday shopping.
Eco Gift Expo
Eco Gift Expo
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St., Santa Monica
Sat., Dec. 15, 9 am – 8 pm and Sun., Dec. 16, 9 am – 5 pm
($10 online, $15 at the door; free for seniors and children under 12)
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December 7th, 2007 cate
I’ve been hearing so many great things about the new book, Eat, Pray, Love
and thought it would be a good opportunity to share it with you. It could make a nice gift for someone close to you or a gift for yourself! Yes, you deserve a gift, too, you know.
About Eat, Pray, Love:
At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for “balancing.” These destinations are all on the beaten track, but Gilbert’s exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings: recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God, she says, “It was all I could do to stop myself from saying, ‘I’ve always been a big fan of your work.’”
Click here: Eat, Pray, Love
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November 26th, 2007 cate
Internet broadcast quality TV for your mind. body, and spirit. BeYOU.tv is a membership-based community built around high quality, full length videos that focus on health and well-being. Video topics range from yoga to cardio to Chinese cooking. There is a 7-day free trial membership during the open beta period. Membership $14.95/month.
Be You TV
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November 15th, 2007 cate
From Why Travel to France:
“It’s a long way from the instant smiles posing next to the Eiffel Tower, and it’s miles away from the diesel fog fumes that guarantee an all-day pounding headache. You won’t find it anywhere near bursting stores with people packed against each other in human sardine fashion to find the best soldes, nor is it even remotely near the shiny tans of the Cote d’azur. In fact, if you go to this place, you may forget that you’re actually somewhere in France.
Past the tensed shoulders and anguish deeply embedded in tight chests is a place, another world where “mindful living” takes priority over the superficial, the stuff that shouldn’t matter. It is where the art of living involves awareness through breathing and small, ordinary acts. Under the wings and core teachings of the honorable Thich Nat Hanh (writer, zen master, poet, peace and human rights activist) and the permanent Buddhist resident monks and nuns, you are one step closer to transforming and healing your psychological state, restoring individual inner peace, which is interconnected with the quest for universal peace.
Situated in france’s southwest…”
Read the whole article about Plum Village in France
Recommended Reading of Works by Thich Nat Hanh: Fragrant Leaves (Journals 1962-66) – Journal entries from America and Vietnam in the ’60s-a portrait of the Zen master as a young man; Call Me by My True Names – is awe-inspiring, one of the most powerful texts on interconnection; Anger – We all need to know how to deal with our anger; The Miracle of Mindfulness – The essential teachings of mindfulness; Peace is Every Step – “Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live…”; The Art of Mindful Living – How to bring, love, compassion and inner peace into your daily life; Teachings on Love – Love is more than an emotion; Breathe! You are Alive – Sutra on the full awareness of breathing; Zen Keys – A guide to zen practice.
[Photo Courtesy of Plum Village Practice Center, France]
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