Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village."
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Indian social activist Medha Patkar explains how the economic development model being imposed on India's farmers is neither inclusive nor sustainable.
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Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, suggests that the current problems of humanity can only be resolved by a new collective knowledge.
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Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development.
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In this complete interview, Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa reflects upon the meaning of oneness in this age.
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Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, explains that an inner consciousness of unity will in turn allow for greater understanding of the multiplicity of life.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains two essentials of Buddhist practice: developing mindfulness and learning consideration for others.
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Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, explains that a basic fundamental spiritual discipline (yoga) can bring about a centralization of the diverse tendencies of one's nature.
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Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta contrasts protecting and inhabiting nature with exploiting and removing from nature. According to Mr. Mehta, this is a choice between oneness and greed.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa addresses the challenge of dealing with everyday distractions.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness is experienced.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa suggests that spiritual leaders connect to the general public.
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According to Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, if there is spiritual unity, then there is diversity of life without conflict.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa believes that it is the responsibility of religion to adapt to the changing needs of people.
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Tibetan monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la emphasizes the importance of preserving individual cultures in the contemporary age of globalization, as they each offer something unique to humanity.
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Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.
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Parliamentarian and social activist Nirmala Deshpande speaks to the ecological principles of limitation, complexity and interdependence.
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Jayesh Patel, founder of the Indian NGO Manav Sadhna, shows us how the Gandhian principles inspiring the organization are put into practice in the vast slums of Ahmedabad.
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Medha Patkar, Indian social activist and advocate, rejects the idea that indigenous peoples must assimilate to a market economy that is neither inclusive nor sustainable on a long-term basis.
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Anshu Gupta is the founder of Goonj, a volunteer-run recycling center in New Delhi. Anshu shows how Goonj recycles garments to provide clothes, schoolbags, sanitary napkins and other amenities for India’s poor.
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Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, explains that man is a high being capable of evolving to very high states of consciousness, but that there is individual and collective resistance to change.
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Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la explains that on both global and individual scales self-centeredness underlies conflict and suffering.
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Seva, or service, is the selfless giving of oneself for the betterment of others and the world around. At Seva Cafe, the concept of service takes the form of a "pay it forward" restaurant, where every meal is cooked and served with love.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners.
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Emmanuel Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, says the most important thing he's learned from his patients is that life cannot go on without trust.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo describes how the infinite, primordial awareness that lies behind the mind and its sense of duality is the key to experiencing oneness.
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Anshu Gupta, executive director of a volunteer-run recycling program in New Delhi, explains that the key to acting on a large scale is accommodating everybody's strengths.
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Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta describes how the Western yardsticks for quality of life are impossible for a population the size of India's.
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Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta believes that because we are interconnected, we can only protect ourselves by protecting every living thing on earth.
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Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta makes an urgent plea for oneness in light of the climate change crisis.
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Parliamentarian and social activist Nirmala Desphande describes how an Indian nationalist slogan was transformed into a wish of goodwill for the whole world.
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Arabinda Basu, philosopher and scholar of Sri Aurobindo, defines yoga as an organ of knowledge that helps develop one's inner consciousness.
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Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains that, although we desperately want happiness, we are undermined by a society that rewards greed, aggression and egotism.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa explains how exile has given Tibetans a heightened experience of oneness.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa explains the subtlety of spiritual power, and describes traditional means of cultivating it.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes the need for spiritual leaders to connect with the general public.
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Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness begins as an internal experience.
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Tibetan Buddhist teacher Ven. Choegyal Rinpoche believes that although the worlds of business and spirituality are far apart, they can meet by developing common values of care and compassion.
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