11 videos tagged spirituality
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Sulak Sivaraksa
How should good people behave?
Sulak Sivaraksa, widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost Buddhist leaders along with the Dalai Lama, believes that it’s not enough to be good while there is…
Recorded: 20 May 2006
Deepak Chopra
What place does religion have in today’s world?
Chopra describes how religious ideology cannot be substantiated by what scientists now know about reality. Although religions trace their origins to great insights based on profound…
Recorded: 7 May 2005
Yasuhiko Kimura
How can we live more harmonious lives?
Yasuhiko Kimura talks about living life in alignment with one’s core being or ‘authentic self.’ He talks about the many ways in which one can explore authenticity…
Recorded: 25 February 2005
Desmond Tutu
How can people have faith in adversity? (Part One)
In this unusually informal recording, presented here in two parts, Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflects on the hardship and injustice endured in South Africa under apartheid. He speaks…
Recorded: 7 December 2004
Terry Tempest Williams
What are the basic tenets of the Mormon religion?
Terry Tempest Williams talks about her Mormon background. She speaks about Mormon reverence for all life and the church’s tradition of stewardship towards nature. She then…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Ela Gandhi
What role does religion have today?
Ela Gandhi talks about the fundamental role religions play in strengthening moral values in modern society. She then speaks about living one’s chosen religion while at the…
Recorded: 10 July 2004
Satish Kumar
What are the main problems of materialism?
Satish Kumar describes how present levels of consumption in the West are simply unsustainable. He examines the material values prevalent in much of Western society and envisages…
Recorded: 28 May 2004
Robert Muller
Should our education be more globally focussed?
Dr. Muller highlights the need for educational curricula that reflect the modern understanding of our place in the Universe and explore in greater detail the entire spectrum of…
Recorded: 4 May 2004
Elisabet Sahtouris
Should spirituality and science be unified? (part 1)
In this two-part series Dr. Sahtouris talks about reuniting spirituality with science in order to form a new world view – a world view that shows how humanity is still evolving…
Recorded: 1 September 2003
Robert Thurman
What can the West learn from other cultures?
Scholar, author and former Tibetan Buddhist monk, Dr. Robert Thurman talks about how the West has simply gone too far. He discusses the urgent need for western institutions to exercise…
Recorded: 22 August 2003
Wally N'Dow
What would sustainable communities look like?
Speaking at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, Dr N’Dow talks about the need to reduce the ecological footprint of the world’s cities.…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
