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This video shows how CalEarth used a little technology and a lot of sustainability to support 80 poor Nepalese children.
For more on CalEarth and earth bag building, visit their website.
For Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the right reason to worship Narasinghadeva is as Bhaktivinoda prays, “to beg at the lotus feet of Lord Narasingha for the benediction of worshipping Radha and Krishna in Navadvipa, perfectly safe and free from all difficulties.”
These lives we live, surrounded by beauty and horror, profound knowledge and pitiful ignorance, are a mystery to us all. To push that truth away with false certainty, falsely derived from either religion or reason, is to miss our most perfect truth.
In the past decade the number of retraction notices for scientific journals has increased more than 10-fold while the number of journals articles published has only increased by 44%.
“Many have interpreted anatta to be a metaphysical assertion that there is no self, but I argue that this is mistaken.”
Alain de Botton’s attempt to encourage secular society to steal religion’s most fruitful ideas is admirable but ultimately hollow.
In what way is it eco-friendly, considering the use of cement and PVC bags?