Wednesday, February 27, 2013

New translation of Bardo Thodol

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There's a new translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Link includes excerpt).  I've been wanting to read this book after ...
Monday, February 18, 2013

How The Swans Came To The Lake

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I'm reading How the Swans Came to the Lake . A narrative history at times plays a little fast and loose with things. I mean you can...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Suzuki quote

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"You may say, "My practice is not good enough to feel the goal or the full meaning right now." But even though you say ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Conciliation and Atonement

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Conciliation and Atonement If there is any way I have harmed myself, either knowingly or unknowingly, through action of body, speech,...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Nostril Theory

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My friend thought this idea was funny that I have. Supposedly one of the benefits of meditation is it evens out the right and left br...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Debate to meditate

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Doubt: You’re not going to get enlightened, you’re wasting your time. Shradha : How do you know I’ll not get enlightened? How do you kn...
Friday, February 08, 2013

Poem

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Timely Rain by Chogyam Thrungpa In the jungles of flaming ego. May there be cool iceberg of bodhicitta. On the racetrack of bureaucracy, M...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

rebirth novels Buddhist?

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I'm reading Cloud Atlas , and if it's rebirth that makes it Buddhist, then I don't think it's necessarily Buddhist. Also th...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

changing conciousness

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( Source ) Looking on my computer I can gaze into distant galaxies, explore cosmic phenomenon I can dimly comprehend, I can't even...
Saturday, February 02, 2013

It's a jungle out there

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( Source  Derek Poff) I've been watching Monk , and the theme song has kind of gotten under my skin: It's a jungle out there...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Teachers

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In the story "Teachers" by Francesca Hampton, from her book Buddha on a Midnight Sea - Short Stories we get the story of She...

Buddha on Midnight Sea

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"Buddha on Midnight Sea" is the first story in Francesca Hampton's collection of the same name. It's about a man who suff...

Meditation today

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I haven't meditated in a while. I sat today with my partner in front of our shrine, with incense lit. It was a pretty dreamy meditation...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Buddhist Fiction

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( Source ) I read on Buddhist Fiction Blog that Francesca Hampton was going to answer questions about her new book Buddha on a Midn...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

A Straight Road with 99 Curves

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( Source ) Gregory Shepherd has kindly shared his spiritual journey with us in A Straight Road with 99 Curves: Coming of Age on the Pa...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

resisting reality

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(The above photo is Rasheed Wallace, telling the ref that the player missed his free throw because it was a bad call. He shouted "B...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Shoes Outside The Door (Book Review)

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(source:  http://mentalalchemy.tumblr.com/post/40676959937/internettastetest-untitled ) Shoes Outside The Door (Book Review) The ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

On secular mindfulness

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Maitreyabandhu thinks you can't take mindfulness out of Buddhism.
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Book Review: Lust for Enlightenment

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In a previous post , I discussed sexuality through the prism of current American Buddhism and the Christianity presumptions of America,...
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Monday, January 07, 2013

mushroom model?

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From Subhuti's latest paper:  "...there can be an inappropriate over-concern with calibrating one's attainments and pronounc...