Monday, December 18, 2006

Quitting Coffee

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A Survey Of Buddhism, published by Windhorse Publishing , will turn 50 in 2007. I've begun my second reading of it. If I were on a des...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

News/opinion/retreat/travel

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Ambedkar's death anniversary set off more activity in India, read all about it in the FWBO/TBMSG News . An op-ed article in the NY Times...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

Sad Messages

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Messages from people who died in 9/11 left on voice mail and answering machines: "Honey. Something terrible is happening. I don't t...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Excellent Blog

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The atrocities in India against the Dalit community are reported in an excellent blog. There's a wonderful new Buddhism and vegetarianis...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

a spiritual interpretation

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I know Alison Krauss' song Maybe probably is about worldy romance, but the lines, "Tell me that I'm smart enough to deal with ...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

BNN leads in conversion converage

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I find the Buddhist News Network web site the most informative about what is going on in India. A recent article estimates that 2.5 millio...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Singing The Diamond Sutra in English

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Here's a site that sings the Diamond Sutra in English .
Friday, October 27, 2006

misc

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An interesting map is about the spread and territory of Mahayana and Teravadan schools of buddhism. I continue to enjoy Dhammarati's bl...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

Bloggers and mass conversion

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One blogger covers the mass conversion. But my hitherto favorite blogger is actually in India, and hasn't mentioned it at all. BNN ,...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Sign Me Up!

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The next ordination retreat for me has been set! There a nice picture of some of the North American GFR mitras. That's me to the left...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Retreat

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I went up to Aryaloka with Alyssa. Also from NYC were Sita, Faye, and Andrew. Poor Trebor was snowed in, in Buffalo . Nagabodhi led th...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Mass Conversion

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As BNN reports, there is to be mass conversion on the 50th Anniversary of Ambedkar's origional conversion (I've lost the aritcle fo...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Psychology Today Magazine

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For me meditation is more than just an efficiency enhancer. But... Psychology Today Magazine trumpets meditation !
Thursday, October 05, 2006

Upcoming Anniversary of Ambedkar

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As reported on the TBMSG/FWBO web site, Oct. 14th is the 50th anniversary of the conversion of Ambekdar to Buddhism. A special blog has ...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

Elvis Costello

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I was watching VH1 Classic , and they had a concert with Elvis Costello . His song What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding s...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Study NYC

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http://www.tibethouse.org/directory/buddhist.html We don't have a FWBO link here, but we do mitra study. Also, there is a new Pali Canno...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

Mind Book of the Year in the UK

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As reported on FWBO/TBMSG News , Valerie Mason-John , or as we know her in the WBO Vimalasara, has won a literary award for her autobiograp...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

Bill Moyers and Pema Chodron

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Bill Moyers and Pema Chodron have a good discussion on PBS I caught some of this while trying to feed my two infants, and what I saw was qu...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

More Free Podcasts

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Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe has 16 free podcasts, many Stephen Batchelor. They're doing some good work in a prison in Concord New Hamp...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

dhammarati

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dhammarati The above is Dhammarati's blog. He led the last retreat I was on, I think he's awsome. I'm in the process of readin...