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Reflection: With the Flute, on the back of the Buffalo

Eastern religious traditions, specifically Zen Buddhism, present the spiritual journey of the human person to reach spiritual enlightenment in ten images. An experience that teaches many things this season, which in many ways is transitional. Attributed to the 12th-century Chinese Buddhist master, Kakuan Zenji, through this journey, the Buddhist master accompanies his disciple and evaluates […]

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Ecuador: Sumak Kawsay as a Way of Life

The indigenous concept of ‘good living’ can be adapted to Western culture. Understanding the indigenous worldview involves questioning how we are traditionally taught to face life. For example, knowing how to distinguish between ‘living better’, the basis of Western development, and ‘good living’, or sumak kawsay in Kichwa. ‘Living better’ is a Western model that

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Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Smiling Faces of People

For more than twenty years now, Brother Richard Hardi, a medical ophthalmologist, has been travelling through the forest of the Congo to reach the most distant villages and restore sight to people otherwise condemned to a life of darkness. His old four-wheel drive vehicle moves slowly along the track deep in the rain forest. Three

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