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Holiday gifts save on Bay Area brands

What: Holiday Gift Extravaganza; Save 20% off on Bay Area brands, enjoy free Aveda treatements, win raffle prizes and mingle merrily! Where:...
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Convert and TOMS style your sole event

This Saturday there will be a TOMS Style Your Sole event benefiting the Oakland Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA). The event will be held at...
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Conair to convert a jet airliner into an air tanker

A Canadian air tanker company,Conair, has announced that they have purchased a jet-powered airliner and will be converting it into a 3,000-gallon...
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Learn More about Buddhism

For many across the U.S., there is not an abundance of nearby Buddhist temples to easily seek out and learn of Buddhism, and even if there is a...
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Anglican Bishop to convert to Catholicism

According to CatholicCulture.org,a bishop of the Church of England has announced his plan to resign before the end of this year, and join an...
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The Trap of Worldly Passions

The passions of the world can temp, lure, and catch any one. When the mind has no control, the body can sometimes do what it pleases. Consider six...
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Who was the Buddha? - Siddhartha Learns of Suffering

The Buddha was not a god or any kind of divine being in the deity sense. He was but a man. Well, a prince to be exact. When he was born, Siddhartha...
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Buddhist Parables: The 84th Problem

Parables are similar to stories told to children, in the sense that they always have some lesson to be learned and it is usually a very specific...
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Karma in Life and Buddhism

Karma can be consider a natural law. It literally means "action" and in Buddhism can refer to one's motivation in performing an...
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Buddhist Parables: The Spider's Thread

The Spider's Thread, known as Kumo no Ito in Japanese, is a classic tale pieced together by Ryunosuke Akutagawa as a short story in 1918....
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