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Juegos de avatar, the last airbender
One of the most thrilling movie last and this year definitely was Avatar movie. Avatar as a word has a lot of meanings, but originally it comes from eastern myths and religions. Avatar is a god descending to the earth in a form of human to help and salvate humans from darkness. Nowadays on internet [...]
Gold frankincense and myrrh
Merry Christmas
Mirha
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Where did Christmas gift giving come from? If we go back to the first Christmas story when God sent Jesus to earth, we recall that Jesus was given three gifts by the three wise men or Magi, which serve as the inspiration for all our Christmas gift giving [...]
Virtue of Truthfulness – Virtuous life as meditation
(Continued from Virtue of Truthfulness – Invisible realities)
What is a virtue? Virtue (Greek Arete, lat. Virtus) means the most complete realization of the heart and soul of a good. It may also be defined to mean ethically and morally valuable traits. Virtue was a central concept in ancient moral philosophy or ethics. Virtues are skills, [...]
Kuoleman kunniaksi – Pekka Ervast
Yksi kauneimmista ja lohduttavimmista muistotilaisuuksiin ja hautajaisiin sopivista teksteistä löytyy mielestäni Pekka Ervastin kirjan Mitä on kuolema viimeisestä luvusta. Koska sitä on vaikea löytää omana tekstinään ajattelin jakaa tekstin omana päiväkirjamerkintänä. Teoksen loppuluku innoitti myös säveltäjä Oskar Merikannon laatimaan Kuoleman kunniaksi kantaatin.
Kuoleman kunniaksi
Jos olisin runoilija, tahtoisin laulaa ylistysvirren sinulle, kuolema. Sinua eivät laulajat ole [...]
Virtue of Truthfulness – Invisible realities
(Continued from Virtue of Truthfulness – Psychological truths)
When I took an interest in martial arts, I had to face the Indian yoga. If the Chinese philosophy does not contain enough mystical elements then mysterious Indian philosophy and yoga would contain it for certain. Metaphysical truths, are in fact more acceptable than the more concrete and [...]
