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damyata datta dayadhvam, “Be self-controlled, give, be compassionate.” This passage, boiled down as it is to three potent syllables, da – da – da, caught the imagination of T. S. Eliot; more to the point, it has helped countless seekers down the ages to orient their lives to the supreme goal.

Thikkana was also a minister for the Kakatiya kings who tried to bridge Shaivism and Vaishnavism.

strongly towards the side of pluralism but acknowledges the importance of shared cosmological notions which both influenced and were in turn shaped by plural religions, most notably Manichaeism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. These cosmological ideas hold that the universe is a dynamic, organic unity of humans, earthly nature and Heaven…

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all. Elsewhere (Neale, 2011, 2012), I have coined the term ‘McMindfulness’ for the recent trend in the Western mainstream, overemphasizing mindfulness meditation to the exclusion of the other disciplines, diluting the potency of Buddha’s psychology. My critique is based on two observations. First, extracted from the curricula of wisdom and ethics,