While western science often attributes depression to chemical imbalances in the brain, genetic factors, hormonal disturbances, stressful life events, medications and other medical problems. or even perhaps a combination of all these factors, as of yet no clear, complete clinical conclusion has been made.   What we do know and those that suffer depression know very well is that this disorder interferes with the ability to live, to work, to study or …

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To the average Western layperson, Buddhism denotes a mystical foreign religion, more often than not, something that is practiced mainly in the east and one that commonly evokes images of monks cloaked in orange robes, usually chanting and meditating.    The Buddha is well recognized in the West, mainly through countless statues and prints that adorn thousands or probably hundreds of thousands …

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