In Bhutan, anything....a human hand, the water in the mountain streams, the sunlight, the breeze...can be used to "power" a prayer. Surely this establishes that prayer is an energy, a force....?

Here are prayer flags, fluttering in the mountain breeze, atop the Bhutanese slopes.


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Sometimes I feel that patriotism, or its negative form, jingoism, causes a lot of strife in this world. We are , I think, now so interconnected that surely we don't belong to just ONE country any more? I feel just as comfortable in Europe or the US or in Africa, because I do feel that people are the same everywhere...it's just that customs may ( Read more... )

http://bangalore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/05/karnataka_at_the_crossroads.phtml

Let's hope we get the green light! For far too long we have had red and amber slowing us down...