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May 9, 2013 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama participates in an interfaith discussion on the environment at the University of Portland.

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By Ronn Torossian

Rabbi Avi Weiss book, Holistic Prayer: A Guide To Jewish Spirituality offers a unique and special vantage point into Judaism. This thoughtful, understandable classic offers insight into how one can achieve the most connectedness to prayer, to higher levels of holiness through prayer dialogue or rapport with G-d. While Rabbi Avi Weiss speaks to a wide variety of audiences in this book, anyone seeking deeper meaning in life and prayer and the Jewish people will enjoy this book. As Rabbi Weiss states, he desires through this book to reach the ..heart, that it inspire fullness of life, spiritual striving, and prayer that is whole holistic prayer.

As he asks, How does one infuse spirituality into life, into ritual? Discussing the times of prayer, and the meaning of prayer, one better understands how logical everything in Judaism is. Interspersed with touching stories from Rabbinical giants, we understand that the conclusion of the amida, the central part of the service, is a blessing for peace and loving-kindness. So deep, special and indeed meaningful. As the renowned New-York based Rabbi details, prayer allows people to increase our personal commitment to G-d, our people and humankind. By better understanding the meaning of what we say, it helps us better understand aspects and meanings of prayer. Each of us has struggled at times to find meaning in prayer. Certainly, I have sat through countless absolutely boring religious services that I found myself leaving well before the end as it felt devoid of meaning. Whether its the speed of prayer, the style of prayer, or something else altogether sometimes it just doesnt click. As this book acknowledges repeatedly, meaning and connectedness in prayer is vital.

Readers of Holistic Prayer: A Guide To Jewish Spirituality will come away with a better understanding of how to best connect with faith and belief. They will achieve a glimpse into understanding the pure essence of prayer. There are so many different ways to achieve spirituality, and this book offers a unique, and inspiring manner to better understand the meaning of prayer and insight into how to find the spark to light your fire.

For me, praying and meditating often allows me inner peace and balance. I particularly enjoy prayer at the Carlebach Shul where the singing allows me to feel spiritually connected. For everyone they have unique manners to connect whether through study groups, lighting candles or other manners. The trick is to find your way to best connect. Rabbi Avi Weiss explains at the end of the chapter entitled Goals Of Prayer: To have faith means to live and encounter G-d at all times, in all places, walking in His ways. This is the mission of Judaism, and the innermost core. I also particularly enjoyed the chapter on spirituality, where he defines the word as: Spirituality means having consciousness of the moment while recognizing G-ds role in that moment. In other words, spirituality is being in the moment while feeling G-ds presence.

As he explains, The purpose of this book, in its broadest sense, is to find meaning in prayer. In a world where prayer has become void of soul, this book attempts to fill that void. This very special book allows readers to connect intellect with emotion, the heart with the soul, and their very essence to a higher being. Holistic Prayer: A Guide To Jewish Spirituality is a book which belongs in every Jewish home. It should be earmarked, highlighted, studied and enjoyed.

Ronn Torossian is a public relations executive, and author of For Immediate Release: Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations.

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Barking Up the Wrong Free

I must admit that each time I read a good argument supporting each position (1) the Bible is to be taken literally and (2) the Bible is not to be taken literally, I find I am moved by both positions (Did the Exodus Happen? April 18). They are both intellectually and emotionally fulfilling. The question then becomes, for me, what are my motives in accepting one position as opposed to the other. Which position brings me closer to God, a being I cannot prove exists? And if I cannot prove God exists, though I can experience his existence as I experience love, why am I required to prove these events occurred to a standard of scientific certainty? The desire for proof and certainty becomes the new prison, the new idol, the new Pharaoh, which prevents our heart from completely opening up to freedom so that we can then walk with God, as Moses did, and we can truly live the life of a free Jew.

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To add another well-known name to the discourse, Freud described the story of the Exodus as a pious myth. And yet,in one of his controversial books he wrote profoundly and with reverence about Moses the remarkable national leader of the people of the Exodus. He followed his life from the time he was plucked out of the river until his death at the edge ofthe Promised Land.

The story of Exodus, regardless how it happened, is a recurring event in Jewish history. It is the eternal struggle of monotheism in apolytheistic world with tragic results. The Exodus from Egypt probably was no different from the exodus of Jews from Muslim Iran, Czarist and Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, or Catholic Spain. The Exileto Babylon and Rome would also classify as areverse exodus. Whether Rabbi Wolpe or Dennis Prager isright is not the question. The issue is whether the unleavened bread displayed on asilver platter in afestive setting is the proper and worthy symbol of the strugglefor freedom by a people willing to suffer and pay the price for it. So we ask: Manishtana?

Ken LautmanLos Angeles

To Thine Own Selfie Be True

Kudos to Danielle Berrin for her informative article on Alan Morinis and the Mussar Institute (Selfie Spirituality, April 18).I was privileged to learn about how effective this ethical system is when I visited the California Institute for Women where my friend, the Rev. Gabbai Shayna Lester, was honored on Pesach by inmates and her peers alike.The inmates both Jews and gentiles who took part in the Mussar classes, learned among other principles the importance of avoidinglashon harah gossip and negative comments about others. And it was reported on several occasions that the parole board looked favorably on this program in their consideration of an inmate being found suitable for parole.

This was the most moving seder I have ever attended, written by the inmates themselves as part of a creative writing project. The inmates were also able to have a rare real food meal, and to socialize with outsiders like me who take our freedom for granted.I urge my fellow Jews to familiarize themselves with this programs leader, Rabbi Moshe Raphael Halfon, and Am Or Olam.

Gene Rothman,Culver City

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THERE are indeed a thousand and one ways to celebrate one's relationship with God.

Take for instance "The Masterpiece: A Spiritual and Religious Exhibition" at the Museo Diocesano de Bacolod at the San Sebastian Cathedral Rectory.

Featuring the works of 13 Negrense artists, the exhibit "celebrates spirituality not only in a conventional way but as well as in an experimental nature of contemporary artists expressing their spirituality, finding the Sacred in nature and in ordinary objects."

It showcases the works of Rafael Paderna, Rodney Martinez, Corazon "Sonny" Golez, Dolly Gatuslao, Nunistell Mae Fulo-Lee, Fred Juson, Moreen Austria, Romeliz Valenciano Sr., Ritchie Arvin Cuesta, Ma. Fe Sumagaysay-Cuesta, Ian Valladarez, and Me An Mangante.

The exhibit opened last week, on April 14, in time for the Holy Week. It is the first religious art exhibit hosted by the Museo Diocesano de Bacolod, located at the third floor of the San Sebastian Rectory.

The artworks promote spiritual consciousness to the public which is very timely for the Lenten season.

Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra said during the opening ceremonies, "The exhibit helps us see that art can serve the faith and train people's lives towards God and towards something moral."

The exhibit does not only portray different religious artworks but it also reflects the faith of the people. One of the artists, Dolly Gatuslao, shared how she became fond of painting and collecting religious paintings.

When she was young, she would love to watch paintings with faces of Jesus and Mother Mary and that motivates her to paint religious images.

The exhibit will run until April 30. Museo Diocesano de Bacolod is open daily except Monday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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By Sara Israelsen-Hartley, Deseret News National Modified: April 19, 2014 at 11:41 am Published: April 19, 2014

Hunched over her dining room table in a dark apartment, Danielle Walker sobbed into her hands.

For a while, the drinking and late-night partying had felt liberating. As a 20-year-old who left behind her parents' house and the rules of her Baptist upbringing, Walker was euphoric as she explored the real world.

But after five months, her first real relationship ended, her self-esteem crumbled and she realized she was drinking for medication, not recreation. Counseling didn't help and she'd often spend days on her couch, lost in a spiral of negative thoughts.

Reflecting on this that March night, she slipped from the chair to her knees.

" 'You know what, God, she cried. You have to do something. You have to save me.' And that's when everything started to change in my life."

Over the next year, Walker who left church, fed up with its rules and less-than-friendly peers embarked on a relationship with God stronger and more life-changing than anything she had experienced as a child.

"I would never have thought that by turning my life around I'd have such a positive outlook on life and feel so motivated," the 23-year-old said. "Now that I do have a relationship with God, I see how good it is."

For several years, the United States has seen a decline in religious affiliation. Currently, 20 percent of Americans don't claim a particular religion or church up from 15 percent just five years ago. Some worry that this shift into secularism will turn the United States into Western Europe.

Yet others are more optimistic. They point out that polling data don't always allow for a nuanced discussion of faith and spirituality, and that many individuals still want to have a relationship with God, albeit on their own terms and with their own timing.

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Jesus and Buddha have high approval ratings among British Columbians. The founders of Christianity and Buddhism both receive strongly favourable rankings in B.C. and Metro Vancouver, according to an Easter poll conducted for The Vancouver Sun.

Two of the best-known living leaders in Christianity and Buddhism - Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama - also win top approval ratings.

According to an Insights West online poll of 815 B.C. residents conducted last weekend, three of four believe both Jesus Christ and Buddha "had a positive influence on mankind."

The Dalai Lama received virtually the same approval ratings as the head of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, Pope Francis.

The performances of the Dalai Lama and the Pope were "approved" by more than 55 per cent. Only five per cent "disapproved" of the Dalai Lama; 11 per cent were critical of the pope.

It's no surprise that two of the major religions with historical links to the East and West are well-received here.

After all, Metro Vancouver is the most Asian major city outside Asia - 43 per cent of Metro residents have an Asian background. Mario Canseco, who conducted the poll for Insights West, said Pope Francis, elected last year, scored across all age groups.

Although the poll indicated the Eastern-rooted religions of Sikhism and Islam are not as popular in B.C. as Buddhism, there are other signs that aspects of Eastern spirituality have taken hold here.

There is a high rate of acceptance, for instance, of the concept of "karma." It is a Buddhist-Hindu teaching that, at the broadest level, suggests people will suffer for their unethical acts and be rewarded for virtuous behaviour.

Sixty-one per cent say they "believe" in karma. Belief in karma, oddly enough, is even higher among Christians, at 65 per cent.

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