Saturday, January 31, 2015

Free will and addiction

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( Source ) In the disease model of addiction, it is nice in that it counters some of the heaping moral blame. Blame the victim is fair...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Hotai in a frump hat

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McMahan on Suzuki

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P. 133 of The Making of Buddhist Modernism: "Suzuki's insistence that the enlightened person transcends social conventions and p...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Once In A Lifetime

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"Once In A Lifetime" And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of t...

Sutta Nipata 4.15

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Seeing people floundering      like fish in small puddles,      competing with one another —                 as I saw this,                ...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Meditating with a new cat

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Anandi enjoys cats, and she waited an appropriate time after Oscar died, and then she decided she wanted rescue cats from the shelter. She ...

Perennialism

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The Making of Buddhist Modernism  is really eye opening in that it discusses how other ideas are used to articulate Buddhism in the modern ...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

what is a Buddhist?

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McMahan talked about modern existence, and being disenchanted, and that we are looking for re-enchantment. I'm not sure which I w...
Saturday, January 03, 2015

off to the opera

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Reading the Visuddhimagga really gets you into the word tangle. Disentangling the entanglements is perhaps one of the missions of Buddhism...
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Friday, January 02, 2015

'body scan meditation' by vidyamala

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free buddhist audio : : 'body scan meditation' by vidyamala Retreat update: We did a body scan, which is wonderful. Vidyamala...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

metta bhavana - full lead-through' by kamalashila

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free buddhist audio : : 'metta bhavana - full lead-through' by kamalashila Forgive me if I'm a little precious about my exper...

Food

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Anandi reports another vegan blog just stopped being vegan. She thought the comments were very harsh, the vegan community is often very har...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Reading

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I only read one book this year that was published in 2014, so I don't feel like it's fair to give out my yearly best book award. I ...

Sisters of Dolma (Film Review)

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Just watched Daughters of Dolma . It is a kind of profile of some young female Buddhists. The way women are treated in the society is the w...

transition day into a home retreat

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(photo by Anandi ) We got in late last night, and were pretty wiped out from the travel, so decided to make today a rolling into the ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Mural in Santa Fe

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Friday, December 26, 2014

Tibet House Santa Fe

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Wrong intension.

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Source Right intension is a very important aspect of Buddhism. Yesterday I woke up and did a puja. While I was doing it, my son woke...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

what is spirituality?

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What is spirituality? Source I’ve heard so many people say they don’t like that word. I used to think spirituality was other wor...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Fearless mudra

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Cape Coral Florida 11/25/14