Saturday, February 28, 2015

Mindfulness of the Buddha

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( Udumvara flower ) This is a book review of The Life of the Buddha (Penguin Classics) . As noted in a previous blog , the book was w...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Tenzin Chogyel

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No much can be found about Tenzin Chogyel on line. There's a living musician with a similar name. Tenzin Chogyel lived from 1701-1767, ...

quote

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The Life of the Buddha (Penguin Classics)  p. 4 "Proud fools rest ever in their errors Saying senseless things in greed hatred and ...

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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Re-enchantment

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Walking by a beautiful statue of the Virgin Mary, I didn't have that enchanted feeling. I've been asking myself do I need to r...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

the positive side of dreams

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I found this post amongst my drafts and I thought I would post it.... Felt I should follow up on yesterday's post about escapism w...

the positive side of dreams

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Felt I should follow up on yesterday's post about escapism with further meditations and thoughts. Dreaminess isn't all bad, ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Escapism

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source One time on retreat, a woman suggested that sport talk radio was escapism. I was surprised at how quick the denial came out of ...
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Sunday, February 08, 2015

Billy Collins poem

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Shoveling Snow with the Buddha (Billy Collins) In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Free Will

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"Just as a ball of string that is thrown, will run away always unwinding, even so the fool and the wise running on, circling around, w...
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...