Dalai Lama Gets Meditation Lesson

The Dalai Lama was in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, meeting with President Bush, giving a public talk on the subject of global peace -- and learning about meditation from Western scientists. Wired

Madhyamavani Magazine

Must have missed the launch of this, but better late than never. This is an important resource for the FWBO. Madhyamavani

God bless America!

Ever find one of those stories that capture your attention - cool, macabre (sp?), scary and fun all at the same time - and then when it comes to blogging it you just can't think of a way to describe it... Economist

English to Hindi/Sanskrit converter

This is a nice little app for anyone with Indo-philic inclinations. Transliterate to Sanskrit/Hindi
As you type roman characters into a window on the left the right hand window shows you the Devanagari transliteration, and another window gives you the HTML equivalent.
My name, Jayarava, looks like this जयरव
Cool.

BBC NEWS | Health | How singing unlocks the brain

How singing unlocks the brain BBC Just wanted to tag this because it ties in with my research into what makes mantra chanting an effective spiritual practice. One of the threads I intend to follow when I get time is this idea that singing together is beneficial in many ways: emotional resonance with other people... rhythm seems to be important as well. Trying to track down the research to support this hypothesis is a bit tricky, but there is some.

New Word

Cacographer. (click for a definition)
This is why I prefer to type these days, and even though they are knot infallible, why I love speling chequers.

Google Base

This what makes Google interesting... always something new. Apparently Google emplyees have 20% of their time to just muck around and come up with stuff. This new stuff is interesting. It's a database that uses upload directly to - you describe it, and Google indexes it, and anything with a high Google rating will get into the main index as well. People are uploading recipes, job ads, stuff for sale, etc. Cool. Google Base

Koha - Open Source Integrated Library System

I'm starting to think about doing library work again after a three year break... Pema sent me this to help get me in the mood :) Koha - Open Source Integrated Library System

The Jayarava Rave

If I blog myself... will I go blind? The Jayarava Rave

A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle

Blogging is for people with too much time on their hands... like Paul Kohlmiller who took the time to analyse the Monty Python Galaxy Song to see how accurate it was/is. Get a blog Paul!

Meditation Associated With Increased Grey Matter In The Brain

Meditation Associated With Increased Grey Matter In The Brain. Sci Daily