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The Inner Prison: The Dhamma Brothers & Vipassana in Jail

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Now, Racism, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

To date, 430 inmates have gone through the Donaldson Vipassana meditation program, the only one of its kind in North America. There’s a waiting list for the quarterly sessions, and the state wants to expand the offering to its women’s prison. An NPR story. and an...

Ménilmontant by Dimitri Kirsanov

by Pier Marton | Feb 4, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Film, France, KeyFilm, Women

A classic, with his wife Nadia Sibirskaïa, playing both a child and an adult. Displays graphic ways of letting the landscape affect the viewer and contains one of the most moving (silent) scene describing hunger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeIqYCeVxk Click to...

Peter Buffet: If I could hold you

by Pier Marton | Feb 1, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Archi, Art, Asia, Cam, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, iPhone, Mac, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Music, Now, Objects, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Software, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel, Video, Wars, Women

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Grey Matter Changes

by Pier Marton | Jan 30, 2011 | Care, Eco, Health, Ideas, Mystery, Now, Software

Something happens! How meditation changes the brain (in the NYTimes). The results suggest that participation in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory...

Where To Live: Compare Country to Country

by Pier Marton | Jan 29, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Magyar, Middle-East, Politics, Site, Travel, Women

IF IT WERE MY HOME.com US to France: If The United States were your home instead of France you would… consume 2 times more oil The United States consumes 2.6400 gallons of oil per day per capita while France consumes 1.3021 This entry is the total oil consumed in...

Genocidal Doctors

by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Wars

Armenia, Argentina, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda… … There have been various attempts in recent years to humanize doctors by changing the medical curriculum, by exposing students and young doctors to great non-scientific novels, poetry and plays, by making psychology and...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus