M.J. Rose

Dalai Lama urges global cooperation in economic crisis

(AFP) –

FRANKFURT — Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for worldwide cooperation to fight the effects of the economic crisis.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said the global downturn showed “how our world is really small” and urged countries to take concerted action.

“We have to think globally,” he said, speaking at a conference on the economic crisis in Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt.

The Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India, also said urgent measures were needed to fight global warming and close the gulf between rich and poor.

“We don’t need just nice talking, we must take action,” he told an audience of several thousand gathered in a football stadium.

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What are the Karma and reincarnation views according to Vedanta – one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest? Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. Vedanta is the philosophical foundation of Hinduism; but while Hinduism includes aspects of Indian culture, Vedanta is universal in its application and is equally relevant to all countries, all cultures, and all religious backgrounds.

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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is perhaps the world’s foremost authority on death and dying. She is also a reincarnationist.

“Conversation with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross” –

By John Harricharan

Far away in Switzerland in the mid-nineteen twenties, triplets were born to a family that expected only one child. Weighing in at about two pounds, Elisabeth Kubler was not expected to live. But the love and care of her parents coupled with the indomitable spirit of Elisabeth herself gave the world one of its noblest daughters.

Best selling author (she has written over sixteen books), lecturer, teacher, physician and philosopher, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is perhaps the world’s foremost authority on death and dying — yet there is nothing somber about Elisabeth

John: You have been close to death many times. Did you not have any fear of it?

Elisabeth: Death never frightened me. It is as much a part of living as anything else. I have faced it so many times it is no longer an enemy.

John: Do you believe in the continuation of life after death?

Elisabeth: I not only believe it, I know it. I have always seemed to know it. I also know that life is forever.

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