We face a fundamental decision in our day: Do we choose to trust the Constitution, creatively facing our challenges within its wisdom?
Even so, his understanding of how modern China has evolved, from Confucianism to communism and now increasingly to capitalism, allows him to operate comfortably within it.The wisdom of the WestIt has also led him to believe that he can make it work better, by introducing what he has learned in the West.
The net is good at surfacing the best ideas hidden within the wisdom of the crowds.
Within global wisdom traditions, whether they have religious, spiritual, or humanistic origins, self-transformation has nothing to do with flattering the ego or pursuing its whims.
The most fruitful answers have come to me through empirical experience: the journey itself, to that place within where wisdom dwells, and healing holds sway.
Lama Surya Das is the author of the recent "Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now" (HarperOne, May, 2011), as well as the bestselling "Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World," and 10 other books.
Amid the enthusiasm to go to war, its warnings challenged conventional wisdom within the Bush Administration.
The accumulated wisdom within the band was clear, and it makes a good case for a next time.
In fact, the conventional wisdom within the criminal justice system remains that small and local is the preferred option for prisons.
Instead, the presumptive Republican nominee laid out a detailed trade policy that is anathema to decades of conventional wisdom within the GOP.
