Relaxing Music New Age- Elysian Waterfall – Europa’s Ocean – Video
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Relaxing Music New Age- Elysian Waterfall - Europa #39;s Ocean
New Age Cinematic Ambient positive song song with acoustic guitar, piano, and bowed guitar. I used Ableton and the Ravenscroft piano to make this track which is in B major. Free album download...
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1 Hour Relaxing Music ~ Celtic | Emotional Instrumental | Vocals ~ Claudie Mackula – Video
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1 Hour Relaxing Music ~ Celtic | Emotional Instrumental | Vocals ~ Claudie Mackula
A 1 Hour mix of beautiful relaxing Celtic instrumental and vocal music. For this music mix, I chose most of my slow Celtic compositions, vocal ensembles, as well as a few piano/guitar instrumental...
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Ashram Declines To Perform Last Rites Of Ashutosh Maharaj – Video
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NSW ashram ‘not to blame’ for abuse
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A doctor has denied over-prescribing morphine to children at a NSW yoga ashram where he lived.
An ashram should not be held responsible for abuse inflicted on children by its former spiritual leader and his second-in-command, two yoga devotees have told a royal commission.
Muktimurti, a longtime resident of the Mangrove Yoga Ashram on the NSW Central Coast, said on Tuesday she did not know if physical and sexual abuse as alleged by former child residents had taken place.
Muktimurti said she did not really believe the allegations against ashram leader Swami Akhandananda when he was brought to trial.
She said in her statement to the commission she found it "morally questionable" for victims to now seek financial compensation.
"I don't agree with the ashram being held to ransom for something that none of us in the ashram community have anything to do with," she said.
Muktimurti said she believed compensation would imply the ashram had done something wrong.
Akhandananda, who has since died, was jailed in 1989 for abusing four girls.
The sex abuse royal commission has heard from nine witnesses who have described shocking sexual abuse by the swami and physical abuse by his second in charge, a woman known as Shishy, in the 1970s and 80s.
Muktimurti lived at the ashram from 1978 to 1996 and is back there in an administrative position.
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Employee tells royal commission yoga ashram should not be ‘held to ransom’ by compensation demands
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A worker at a New South Wales yoga ashram who denies fetching teenage girls from their beds at night and taking them to their spiritual leader, who sexually abused them, says the organisation should not be 'held to ransom' by people seeking compensation.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking at the handling of 11 complaints made against Swami Akhandananda Saraswati over the past 40 years, relating to abuse that happened in the 1970s and '80s.
Muktimurti Saraswati told the Sydney hearing that she joined the ashram at Mangrove Mountain on the New South Wales Central Coast when she was 17.
She worked as a secretary and assistant to a woman called Shishi who has already appeared before the royal commission.
Muktimurti rejected earlier evidence from a victim, Alecia Buchanan, who said Muktimurti took her to Akhandananda's room where she was repeatedly abused.
"I can recall absolutely and categorically it never happened," Muktimurti said, adding that she did not believe the allegations of abuse when they first emerged.
"After Akhandananda went to jail I have to say I think we all became disillusioned with him," she said.
"But I stayed in the ashram not because I dedicated my life to him but to the ideal that is expressed within the ashram."
Last week the lawyer representing the ashram apologised to the victims and acknowledged they might view efforts to make amends as "too little, too late".
Muktimurti said she still does not know if the abuse occurred but said: "It looks rather likely."
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Gelek Rimpoche – The Indestructible Vehicle – Essence of Tibetan Buddhism 71 – Video
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Gelek Rimpoche - The Indestructible Vehicle - Essence of Tibetan Buddhism 71
http://www.jewelheart.org/digital-dharma/ Vajrayana tries to utilize the experience that every human being will go through, such as birth, death, and the int...
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Volokh Conspiracy: Burmese author and politician facing possible jail for blasphemy
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The Irrawaddy reports:
Columnist and National League for Democracy member Htin Lin Oo has been subjected to a lawsuit for contravening the Burmese Penal Codes statutes on religious offence, after a speech last month provoked outrage from Buddhist groups.
An officer from the Department of Immigration in Sagaing Divisions Chaung-U Township has filed a lawsuit against Htin Lin Oo under Article 295a, which prohibits deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings, and Article 298, which proscribes uttering words [...] with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings. Both charges are punishable by fines or imprisonment of up to two years for the former and one year for the latter.
The prominent author gave a two-hour speech to over 500 people at a literary event in Sagaing Divisions Chaung-U Township on Oct. 23, during which he criticized the use of Buddhism as fig leaf for prejudice and discrimination.
Buddha is not Burmese, not Shan and not Karen so if you want to be an extreme nationalist and if you love to maintain your race that much, dont believe in Buddhism, he said at the time.
If they accuse me of insulting the religion I will also defend that, Htin Lin Oo said. I didnt intend to target monks, I only intended to discuss those who dont obey the Buddhas words and do whatever they want. Everyone already knows that but they just ignore it.
He added that the Buddha instructed his followers to have mercy on all beings, and those who argue that some should be shown kindness to the exclusion of others do not live up to Buddhisms precepts.
There are both good people and bad people in all religions, he said. We cant insult other religions for having some bad people and also say that others cant insult Buddhism for having some bad people. I believe I did my duty.
Unsurprisingly, Im not an expert on Burmese law, but from this story this sounds like what might have been called a private prosecution in America a criminal claim but brought by a citizen (though here, a government employee) rather than by an official prosecutor. If anyone knows what the likelihood of a conviction here would be, please let me know.
Thanks to Prof. Howard Friedman (Religion Clause) for the pointer.
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P3: Christian Fuhlendorffs morgen er en zone af zen – Video
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P3: Christian Fuhlendorffs morgen er en zone af zen
GANDHI-vrt Christian Fuhlendorff knuselsker sit job og sin redaktion. LS OGS: bit.ly/drligelifehacks.
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LED Zen Board 2 – Video
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LED Zen Board 2
My miniature version of Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau. For instructions on how I made it go to: http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Zen-Board/
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Brooks Project by Zen Windows – Video
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