Monday, February 27, 2012

Guest Post: Reflections on my Ordination and Ordination in General

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Below is a letter sent by my friend Mike.  He's writing to communicate his approach (and struggle) in the ordination process of the T...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Video

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Friday, February 17, 2012

admitting mistakes

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Early morning musings: On page 43 of Allan Lokos' book Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living , the author reports that in a study of s...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

spiritual death

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Musings: I've listened a few times to this talk.  And I watched the last Harry Potter the other day, where (spoiler alert) he has to...
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Shanger (United States of Tara dialogue)

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From Episode 10 in season 2 of United States of Tara: Older gay neighbor:  I was so full of shame and anger, that my therapist called it ...

video

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This is the theme song for United States of Tara, and I love the lyric:   "I know we'll be just fine when we learn to love the r...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine's Day

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We have not long to love. (by Tennessee Williams) We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we ...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The World Is A Waiting Lover

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"That was the beloved.  You've been saying all along that it's the  seeking that's important, not the finding.  We never k...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Revolutionize Your Soul

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Maybe you can have all the things that you've ever dreamed of Maybe you can drive your hummer down your gold plated streets with your...

Bhante and Nagabodhi video

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Sangharakshita in Conversation- The FWBO from Clear Vision Trust on Vimeo .
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Andres Lost His First Tooth

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Lost Tooth! They saw Tintin Their medals for participation in basketball I've decided to consolidate my effort...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Shamash Alidina video (2 min, 22 seconds)

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I like the idea of smiling when you notice your mind has wandered.

quote from Mindfulness for Dummies

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“Of the three ways of achieving satisfaction in life (pleasure, engagement and meaning) engagement and meaning are by far the most effect...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Disillusionment

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We have a fantasy mind, that is important, but sometimes I don't know the difference between fantasy and reality.  We have to project o...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Brahma Viharas

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I'm off to a retreat at Aryaloka .  Over the winter of 2001/2002, I went on a Brahma Viharas retreat for a week that blew my mind.  Te...

Letters to Dinoo

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Dear Dinoo by Sangharakshita My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have read about 30+ Sangharakshita books.  One is an all time world classic:  ...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

watched this video today

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I'm reading his book on patience, so I thought it would be interesting to take a gander at him.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Possessions

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Reading the wonderful Essential Sangharakshita , there's the pithy comment, that renunciation is not about giving up, but about growing...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

vulnerability is beautiful

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This isn't exactly the Dharma, but it is about barriers to relating to people, and I see tha...

Dreams

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I was reading in Nanamoli's The Life of the Buddha (p.22) that the Buddha had 5 dreams before he became enlightened.  I'm going to ...