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Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE CHANGES: LESSONS FROM FRANCE AND INDONESIA Currently Lifestyle changes as a remedy is being touted all over the world, in print…
I had begun this journey from the Reservation of Omaha Indians of North America, which took me, either on airlines or countries which were mostly Moslem: Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei,…
Arrogance, a Structural Defect of the Mind KLEISHA Arrogance arises out of ignorance, and also from attachment, thus connected to other structural defects of our minds, and in addition to…
Long Live Fidel, Shout my Malaysian and Indonesian Friends The night had just fallen and we could look at the Mekong River from where we were sitting. Our little group…
THE MIRACLE BY THE LAKE: THE MOTIVATOR OF SENTUL CITY, INDONESIA Mind/Body Exercise Programme Initiated by the Humble Boss of Bogor (see a previous blog about him) One hears very…
BUKA BERSAMAN.. Exactly 44 hours after leaving the Blue House among the Indians, I walked out of the customs hall at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at CGK in Jakarta..Visa on…
Tolerance of Minorities in Israel The case of Circassians For some reason or other, I thought about the Circassians this morning while at the Blue House among the Indians I…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AN INDIAN JEW SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS OLDER INDIAN BROTHER When I was adopted into an Indian family, C, a brother began…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.” Recently I had been thinking about CONTEXT, in a phenomenological sense, but never…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The French and the Hamburger The French are concerned that they have become the SECOND largest consumers of Hamburgers in the European…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE COMPASSION OR PITY: WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR HAPPINESS I overheard someone say: If only we gave the children of African Migrants an…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PHILSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BAKHTIN MERLEAU-PONTY Like many of us, I can clearly recall a turning point in my life. Soon after graduation…