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Brothers and Simple Living: Are they Happy?

Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one’s way of living happily blending with the environment where one lives. Buddhism encourages living a simple life and shying away from materialism. It is said that, the more wealth one possesses, we shed more happiness. I think it may be true to a greater extent. For example, if we own a kilogram of gold, diamond etc., most of our time and peace of mind will be disturbed for the fear of getting it stolen from the lockers or losing it. Che-nga-la and Chu-dru-la in Chamkhar Bumthang. Bumthang, the place known in Bhutan for its spiritual habitat has two brothers named as Che-nga-la and Chu-dru-la, which directly translates in English to be Fifteen and Sixteen. I don’t know from where the peculiar name has been derived. They may be in their mid fifities. I still wrack my head and ask elderly people of the community to find out if their real name is what we address them or do they have another name? In m

2011, The Royal Year

Courtesy: Rox Features Courtesy: Kuensel Year 2011 has been the year of the ROYALS. On April 29, 2011 in Britain, Prince Williams married Kate Middleton in style, leaving people from all walks of life spellbound. People have remarked that it has been a “stylish marriage”. The Britain’s royal wedding was broadcasted live in almost all the visual news media I have known. The fever of the wedding started from November 2010 when Prince William announced the marriage dates. The wedding seems to be truly in a traditional style but for 3 billion witnesses. I guess it was an ancient customs tweaked by modern developments. News media’s showed millions of people lined in the route of the royal procession and another half a million in front of the Buckingham Palace to watch the Bride and Groom kiss on the Palace balcony. I was in the USA watching the entire procession of the royal wedding. I was speaking to one of the professors on the wedding, where he said that he couldn’t