To cultivate altruistic love, we must first become fully aware of our own desire to be free from suffering and to experience well-being. This step is especially important for those who have a negative image of themselves or have suffered so much that they feel that they are not made for happiness. We must thus generate warm, tolerant and benevo...

Sit comfortably and breathe calmly and naturally. For a few moments, focus your attention on the going and coming of the breath. Be aware of the sensation created by the passage of air into the nostrils. Be aware of the short moment when the breath is briefly suspended between the expiration and the next inhalation. Whether your breath slows do...

On December 9th, the European Parliament votes on the legality of fishing in deep waters (‟deep-sea” or ‟bottom trawling”). The fragile and rich biodiversity of the sea bottom has taken tens of thousands of years to form. Today, we are brutally destroying it. Just imagine if the Notre Dame Cathedral was leveled by bulldozers! In fact, 10 deep-s...

"Religion" comes from the Latin word religare which means to link, connect, or relate to. Thus, the view in each religion depends on what one is connecting with. In the case of theistic religions, one establishes a link with God, who is regarded as a creator or as infinite love. Therefore one should relate to all the beings he created with th...

‟Cooperation and partnership are the only routes that offer any hope for a better future for all humanity.” - Kofi Annan The French anthropologist Joel Candau wrote that ‟Our species is the only one where strong, fair, diverse, risky, extended, and sometimes costly cooperation is observed between unrelated individuals.” Mutual giving, sha...

On October 17, the” World Food Prize” was presented misleadingly as a ‟Nobel Prize for Food". It was given to the Vice President of Monsanto, and a founding member of the group Syngenta and Marc Van Montagu, a? Belgian part of a powerful European pro-GM lobby (European Federation of Biotechnology). This presentation is like giving the Nobel Pea...

The American comedian Demetri Martin said, ‟I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called ‘Really Busy Hospital'.” Until recently, there was little interest in the creation of pro-social non-violent video games in which the characters interact and help each other instead of killin...

The new version of one of the world's best selling video games, Grand Theft Auto V has just been released. This game contains unprecedented violence. The player may, for example, drive on the sidewalk and run over pedestrians whose blood smears the bumper and the windshield of the four by four which he has taken possession of by force. Video ...