Tuesday, August 31, 2010

few notes

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Jayarava had his 200th post. Saddhu! Aryaloka had it's 25th anniversary and redesigned their website. Also a fascinating article o...
Monday, August 30, 2010

white Tara

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Celebrating Bante's birthday!

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the question of lineage

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One comment stuck out, when I visited the Ch'an Meditation Center yesterday. When I was talking about the Triratana Buddhist Community...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Rupa of Quan Yin at Ch'an Center

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yelp review

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I visited a Ch'an Meditation Center in Elmhurst today and wrote a review on Yelp.

Bante video

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a fantasy of ordination

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I daydream about being ordained. Before I get ordained, I will put in a push in my practice that I did not know was in me. And yet it...
Monday, August 23, 2010

new talks

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Vajradarshini gives another cracking talk, this time about consumerism. Subhuti has a new talk post on FBA. I particularly like the sugg...

first noble truth

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I spouted the usual formation, "life is suffering," to my friends who are not Buddhists,and they felt otherwise, they felt that li...
Friday, August 13, 2010

4 bars

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not over busy

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There are 5 translations on access to insight website. When I read the metta sutta, I think the alternate translation of what must be the...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Jetsun guru

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Saturday, August 07, 2010

discipline

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i can put too much pressure on myself, and let myself off the hook. the lute strings idea helps. just like tuning a stringed instrament, y...
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Friday, August 06, 2010

Rebirth

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"What is reborn? To say that the 'being' reborn is identical with the being lately dead would be the extreme of eternalism. T...
Sunday, August 01, 2010

The Body

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I was first introduced to body scans on retreat up at Aryaloka . I was into yoga when I first got into meditation and I think yoga brings a...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Vajramati's sabbatical

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Pema on divorce (among other things)

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Search Amazon.com for pema chodron
Friday, July 16, 2010

The first one

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p.72 of the Survey: "It is not when we merely do a thing, but when we do it for the first time , that the most formidable obstacles a...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The comfort of the Dharma

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From Drop Box Above is a photo of a friend watching and listening to Robert Thurman on DVD. On the issues of beer, as seen in the abov...