Burma

I haven't been following Burma so closely. I have enough problems in my life, I can only take in so much suffering. But I work with people with HIV, and this article affected me.

BNN has an article too.

Book review

I reviewed a book!

Chuang Yen Monastery

Chuang Yen Monastery
Originally uploaded by thatwaszenphoto

I got this off a lovely blog, the name is underneath the photo. I just think this is a beautiful photo. See the web site for a description by the photographer.

Beauty

An appreciation of beauty is mindfulness.

I like the photos on this woman's blog.

My cousin has a photo blog as well, which is interesting.

good post on being green

I think after the Tricycle Blog, which is mostly about other blogs and info, Danny Fisher has the best Buddhist Blog where he provides some interesting content. His latest one on being green is good.

I also like this blog on being green.

dharmic?

I may be stretching it

I may be stretching it, but I think Metalica lyrics for Wherever I May Roam, could also be about going forth. The video isn't so much about transcendence, seems very worldly, but I append it to the end of this blog entry. At age 40, with all my sophistication, I still feel a visceral reaction to heavy metal.

More MP3s in the ocean of dharma

One skill in being a Buddhist to cultivate is to learn to discriminate on how to take in information. I post things willy nilly, that I hope to listen to. I've just discovered some lectures by Bhikkhu Bodhi, who's stuff I've read before. I can't vouch for them yet, but I do like the stuff I've read of his before.

I found these lectures through this lovely blog.

mens GFR retreat 2007 09 30

mens GFR retreat 2007 09 30
Originally uploaded by sravacitta

I need to remind myself of the power of this retreat. I keep forgetting it. I'm a worldling who loses touch with the dharma at times. I want to be a constant flow of compassion and creativity, but I'm not. The process of trying to get there is what it's all about. And then men support that process. Thank you guys!

Parenting Quote

Sometimes we are focused on developing concentration or investigation or some other quality. New Parents have to work hard at cultivating and maintaining a lot of spiritual qualities: patience, generosity, renunciation (as they give up so much of their freedom and time). But the gift that they receive is love, as well as what’s called mudita, or appreciative joy. There’s no work involved, no effort in developing metta and mudita for our children, they just blossom. Appreciating that this is happening for us can help us to be easier on ourselves when other aspects of our practice seem to be crumbling.

(Kevin Griffin in One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps, P.216)

49 reasons to be a vegetarian

I found a cool web site to help explain my vegetarianism, click on this line.

Oceans of dharma

I've listened to most of the talks on Free Buddhist Audio, which is my first stop for talks. So to freshen things up and get to know the city, I've been listening to talks by Enkyo Roshi, which she generously shares here.

Sita on Zoroastrianism

Sita Mani is mentioned in an article on Zoroastrianism.

another blogger on going for refuge

A blogger of the Jodo Shinshu school, "True Pure Land", founded by Shinran, has an interesting blog on "going for refuge".

This is my least studied sect of Buddhism, but there is an interesting talk on Free Buddhist Audio, called Shiran and Kobat-Zinn.

free coloring books

My boys are into coloring, and I found a place to download stuff for coloring of Buddhist themes.

ask a buddhist

Clear Vision has a new section called Ask A Buddhist.

I wrote a review for a DVD on Amazon

I wrote a review of Meditation for everyone on Amazon.com.

Pictures of Nalanda

I found a site with modern pictures of Nalanda.

video link of Vajramati

Vajramati talks about his early experiences in the order on the video sangha.

Sita regarding Andres

Sita regarding Andres
Originally uploaded by sravacitta

puja

I suppose I'm a bit materialist about collecting pujas. But I've discovered another version of the Bodhicaryavatara puja the standard FWBO puja is based on, with a Bodhicitta emphasis. (That brings me up to 11, 9 of which are on line and blogged about here.)

Here is the page where the puja is. Or this is the link to the actual puja.

I'm looking for more pujas so if anyone has any leads, I would greatly appreciate it.

We had a lovely confession puja last Sunday in our mitra study. That's a very powerful one for me. I never thought I would like puja, but I really do.