Saturday, July 26, 2014

Apparently Innocuous Decisions

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Reading from The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) , I read ...

Ancient Greek Quote

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"Let there be less suffering... give us the sense to live on what we need." Chorus,  381,2, in Aeschylus's Agamemnon .
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Swayambhunath Stupa

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I watched  light of the valley the 15th renovation of swayambhu which I'd recorded from PBS. It's about the Swayambhunath stupa...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

hassle and uplift scale

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Read an excellent article on relapse prevention and came across the hassle and uplift scale . Fascinating. The enlightened person, I i...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Wonderful World

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What A Wonderful World I see trees of green,  red roses too.  I see them bloom,  for me and you.  And I think to myself, what a wond...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

I wish Simon Schama would do a history of Buddhism.

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I wish Simon Schama would do a history of Buddhism. I've been watching the fascinating Story of the Jews . Religion is beset with thi...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Drinking

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I quite enjoyed watching this video this morning. On thing that strikes me about this video from 1993, 21 years ago, is that Bhante...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Savage Pilgrims

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Reading Savage Pilgrims: On the Road to Santa Fe , Shukman quotes D.H. Lawrence, "...Which I am I..." This could be interpreted...

the path

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(source) I haven't meditated in yonks. I asked myself why I haven't been. My answer was that I had lost the habit. How would I...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Walking prayer

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With beauty before me, may I walk With beauty behind me, may I walk With beauty above me, may I walk With beauty below me, may I walk With b...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

quote

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From page 45 of The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happine...
Friday, March 21, 2014

digital intelligence

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From an essay:  When The Factory Turns Cold : "The French revolutionary (and Karl Marx’ son in law) Paul Lafargue wrote “The Right...

Preciousness of life

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From page 42 of The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happine...
Monday, March 17, 2014

quote

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"It must be mentioned here that even today some things are kept hidden from all but the most serious practitioners. Here, wit it comes...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Sunday thoughts

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So I've begun to read The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment a...

Seven Point Mind Training

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The Path To Awakening: How Buddhism's Seven Points of Mind Training Can Lead You to a Life of Enlightenment and Happiness  arrived in t...
Thursday, March 06, 2014

The shortness of life

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Why do we forget about death? Forgetting is an important human function. We could be plagued by existential crisis at an early age, without...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

the monastic code

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In all the books I've read, the Vinaya is something I have not read about beyond The Ten Pillars of Buddhism (Sangharakshita Classics)...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Sona

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I was reading Encounters with Enlightenment: Stories from the Life of the Buddha , and I read the story of Sona to my sons. He's the lu...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

tantric sex magic

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Just kidding. I want to write about redemption. Even so this is one of my most popular posts. I remember back in 2010, Brit Hume suggest...