Monday, June 29, 2009

Milarepa quote

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From p. 378 of Ten Thousand Songs of Milarepa: "I attain all my knowledge through studying my mind within, thus all my thoughts become ...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Living Ethically: Advice from Nagarjuna's Precious Garland

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Sangharakshita has a new book Living Ethically on Nagarjuna 's Precious Garland . At first I didn't want to write a review because...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Hello At Last

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Hello at last. You have only just begun to know each other. (Allan Gurganus) Reading Sara Jenkins ’ book Hello At Last , is like meeting som...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Someone blogged in reference to my article.

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I'm not one to search out references to my blog, but I was heartened that The Breeder Files , mentions an article I wrote for Wildmind a...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Urban Retreat

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Urban Retreat has a web page. And it's on Facebook. FWBO news talks about it. Sona talks about urban retreat on Video Sangha. The idea...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

vajrasattva

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vajrasattva Originally uploaded by jayarava I love this photo from Jayarava.
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Book Review: The Essential Sangharakshita

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Book Review: The Essential Sangharakshita This book is hot with intensity. You need oven mitts to read it. When I read The Essential Sangh...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Had a lovely retreat!

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Enlightenment Therapy

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I finally got around to reading the Enlightenment Therapy article in the Sunday NY Times Magazine. My first thought is "alienated aware...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Intensity

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Reading The Essential Sangharakshita , I felt intensity. Sangharakshita says, "...at a liberal estimate, one in twenty Western Buddhis...
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Why I am a Buddhist

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Why am I a Buddhist? I’d say I am a Buddhist because of deep meditative experiences, bolstered by sangha and study. My friend said she’s s...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Meditation and children: update

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My eldest (5) went to his t-ball game with my wife. So I had the younger one (3.5). I asked him if he would mind if I meditated. I used to...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

video about editing The Essential Sangharakshita

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FWBO Day 2009 talk by Vidyadevi speaks about the process of editing 'The Essential Sangharakshita. She addresses the criticism that The ...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Follow me on twitter

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Here's my link on twitter. I'm going to post links there. I just posted a link about female vegans have dense bones.
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Essential Sangharakshita Quotes

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p. 150 "Human beings are today less free to think and feel simply, naturally, and spontaneously than at any other period in history....
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Reincarnation

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Thurman and Batchelor debate reincarnation. I myself lean towards Batchelor's side. I think more along these lines: "..if there w...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Essential Sangharakshita Quotes

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P.108: "Where you are is less important than whether or not you know where you are." P. 109: "One is not following the Bud...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

quotes from Suvarnaprabha

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Suvanrnaprabha has some good quotes. Here's the last quote: If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mo...
Friday, April 03, 2009

Aaron Lackowski's guest post

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Interesting article about the future of Buddhism, taking roots in the USA.  (Broken link, but I'll keep it.) Here are some questions Aar...

Manjushri Puja video

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Here's a link to a Manjushri puja. Here are my past links where I write the word "puja".