Incantations, music, and chanting have been used in rites and rituals since the beginning of time, with roots in ancient ...

San Jose's Obon Festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The festival's big attraction is the traditional Bon Odori, in which hundreds of people perform a community dance.

Once a rising star who shared the stage with Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen, Barkha Madan gave it all up to become a Buddhist ...

While we may all go to the same places, we never experience the place in similar ways. What travel unfolds is deeply personal ...

I have been thinking a lot about the power of rituals to shape and add meaning to our lives. Rituals can be helpful in the ...

The annual fellowship picnic of the Pagosa Unitarian Universalists (UUs) included singing, poems and good food. We spoke of ways we want to continue to hold space for welcoming a community of ...

If you look around, you will see some people living in the past. They will tell you how they enjoyed their childhood leading ...

“One of the biggest obstacles to changing personality is this kind of ambivalence: a sense that yeah, maybe you should get ...

Services and Sermons is a free service for churches and other faith-based groups. Entries may be edited to fit space. The ...

The Ramayana in Sanskrit was authored by Valmiki There was no literature meant for commoners prior to the Ramayana Only Vedic literature existed before it That s why Valmiki is referred to as adi kavi ...

Awakening beyond religion often leads to a deeper, more meaningful relationship with life itself — one that honours ...