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Image (JPEG Image, 320 × 225 pixels) A.aaa-Brilliant-quotes.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 859 pixels) Causeway Cannibal Identified; Fears Grow Over Drug Possibly Involved. Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign Up Causeway Cannibal UPDATED May 29th, 2012 5:27 p.m. MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The crime shocked South Florida and has drawn the attention of the world. A naked man is shot by Miami Police while eating another naked man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway. As the story quickly went viral across the Internet, some have likened the attack to one by a zombie. Click here for the original story about the cannibalistic attack. The suspected cannibal has been identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s officer as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene.

Eugene grew up in South Florida and attended North Miami Beach High in the late 90′s, where he played for the school’s football team according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald. Court records showed he was married to Jenny Ductant in 2005 and divorced two years later. “We noticed an increase probably after Ultra Fest,” said emergency room Dr. Genius-cockatoo.jpg (JPEG Image, 436 × 600 pixels) A Bite of Buddhism. The four sublime mental states are qualities of mind that we cultivate in order to alleviate the suffering we experience in everyday life and to feel more connected to others—and the worries and fears we all share. In the language of the Buddha (Pali), they are called the brahma viharas , which means "the dwelling place of awakened beings.

" The good news for us unawakened beings is that it's easy to begin cultivating the brahma viharas . Indeed, they are an integral part of other religious, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. I present them here with a distinctly Buddhist "flavor. " Metta . The traditional translation for metta is lovingkindness. I like to think of metta as the simple act of well-wishing. Sylvia once said that she practices metta by just looking at a person and silently saying, "I love you. " Karuna . The Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, helped me learn to cultivate compassion for myself.

Mudita . Upekkha . Neil Degrasse Tyson On Life In The Cosmos. 30DrSeuss_quotes.jpg (JPEG Image, 620 × 1900 pixels)

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