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String Figures, Games, and Tricks: A WWW Collection of Favorite Figures
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Making string figures is a pastime that people throughout the world have enjoyed for untold thousands of years. String figures, games, and tricks are an important part of many cultures. They represent people, animals, places, and things of importance. String figures may have ritual, aesthetic, mythological, or religious significance—or, like Cat's Cradle, just be fun to make! Long before TV or books, people were using string figures to illustrate the stories they told around the campfire. The Tibetan Boo...
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Westfulness and Eastfulness
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The 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Thich Nhat Hanh. 14 Thoughtfulness Trainings, with apologies to Thich Nhat Hanh. For wisdom: follow The Path of the Dog. Beginnings: First Lines from Scriptures. The Diamond Sutra: Condensed version. The Platform Sutra of Huineng: Condensed. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. The Zen Teachings of Huang Po on the One Mind. Zen and the Art of Mindful Bus Riding. Private Retreat: Alysion Acres. Mindfulness Meditation Bell, Gong, Timer. Visit our Zazzle store:. 14 Mindf...
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Lorien by Sue Lee
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The world is round, the wise ones say. That we not see beyond this day. And on our journey round the sun. We know not when our time is done. How brief the life of Lorien. An empty void where she has been. Yet in sweet dreams, on distant shore. We walk with Lorien once more. While in our minds she still lives on. We can't yet go where she has gone. Where mortal minds have never been. Now dwell memories of Lorien. Visit our Zazzle store:. Mom's Poems and Lyrics. Other sites by Alysion. Maybe now is the time.
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Beginnings, first lines from scriptures
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First Lines from Scriptures. Dedicated to the life and ripple effect of Vern Hunter, 11/14/1950 — 7/20/2011:. I had the idea of compiling a collection of first lines from various scriptures—or texts variously regarded as sacred. In just a few hours I completed the deed—The Google be praised. The comparisons should prove interesting. I think the contrast between Muhammad's. The Dual Characteristics of God (sacred liturgy of Zoroastrianism). Genesis, Old Testament, Judaism. Hadith: Sahih Bukhari, Islam.
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Memorable Kid Poems
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Hello, this is my list of a few poems kids might like to memorize. Some people, like my Dad, say you haven't really. Appreciated a poem until you've memorized it. The Blind Men and the Elephant. Lord of the Rings. Eyes in the back of my head. The caterpillar ate in style. I never saw a purple cow. Visit our Zazzle store:. Other sites by Alysion. Maybe now is the time. For wisdom: follow The Path of the Dog. Beginnings: First Lines from Scriptures. The Diamond Sutra: Condensed version. Some funny poems he...
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Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?
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Fun with Dimensional Analysis. Medication Math for the Nursing Student. WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures. Poems to Memorize and Memorable Poems. Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems. Ryan's Favorite Kid Poems. For wisdom follow: The Path of the Dog. Are You a Doggiesattva? The Five Precepts of Buddhism. The Diamond Sutra: Condensed version. The Platform Sutra of Huineng: Condensed. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. Ch'an Teachings of Huang Po on One Mind. Maybe now is the time.
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Poems to Memorize & Memorable Poems
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Alysion's Bucket List of. Poems to Read Before You Die. Edna St. Vincent. To See a World. Nothing Gold Can Stay. I Stood upon a High Place. Much Madness is Divinest Sense. Macavity The Mystery Cat. A Man Said to the Universe. My Life Has Been the Poem. A Dream within a Dream. Death be not proud. Casey at the Bat. The Man He Killed. Earth is Like a Vessel. The Passionate Pilgrim, XI. The Cremation of Sam McGee. Because I could not stop for Death. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time. Sigh No More, Ladies.
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14 Mindfulness Trainings
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Thich Nhat Hanh formulated his 14 Mindfulness Trainings during the Vietnam era. From a Western point of view the other yet possibly still consilient and valuable list might be called the 14 Thoughtfulness Trainings that would be lighter on mindfulness and heavier on the skeptical, critical thinking that, for better or worse, characterizes the Best of the West. Maybe brainfulness trainings would be more descriptive of Western interests from Thales to Einstein and beyond, and so of its intellectual history.
