Recent Posts by Pancho

The XIV Dalai Lama, Berkeley, Peace and Compassion.

26 Apr 2009 in Metta Blog

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama made a historic visit to the University of California (UC), Berkeley on April 25, 2009.
He gave a lecture entitled “Peace Through Compassion”, and well, His Holiness embodied his teachings, walking the talk, in a supreme way. How? By befriending, years ago, the chair of the Board of the UC [...]



The Strongest Weapon in the Middle East

19 Jan 2009 in Feature&Metta Blog

Dear friends, the following sections are from an email from Kathy Kelly, Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, January 19, 2009:
Children in Gaza. Photo courtesy of Nora Barrows-Friedman
Dr. Atallah Tarazi, a General Surgeon at Gaza City’s Shifaa Hospital, invited us to meet him in his home, in Gaza City, just a few blocks away [...]



“Amma” Krishnammal Jagannathan at The Metta Center

21 Nov 2008 in Events&Past Events

Krishnammal Jagannathan, known as  “Amma” (“Mom”) spent some days with Gandhi and sang songs at his independence protests. After marriage, she joined Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan movement to walk tens of thousands of miles for the landless. In 1959, she hosted a visiting Martin Luther King, Jr.  In 2008, for holding the beacon of Gandhian legacy [...]



CharityFocus

19 Nov 2008 in Around the Movement

CharityFocus is a radical inspiring organization which is challenging the current prevailing paradigm of “having more”. Its conception was started by this idea: “Let’s serve without any strings attached, just for the sake of giving.” When they started in 1999, their work was to empower nonprofits with web-based technological solutions but that work soon expanded [...]



Collective Intelligence

30 Aug 2008 in Concepts&Definitions

Collective intelligence refers to the capability of a group to collaborate in order to achieve goals that an individual — even the most gifted in a given group — would not be able to solve alone.
On a strictly behavioral level (excluding the symbolic layer of culture), collective intelligence communities are not exclusively a human prerogative.  [...]



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