Saturday, September 19, 2015

Thomas Traherne

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Subhuti quoted Traherne, so I'll be studying him this weekend. You can download from Librivox his Centuries of Meditation.  I also paid...
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Friday, September 11, 2015

odds and ends

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I finished  Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple  on my labor day camping trip. I don't have too many thought...
Friday, September 04, 2015

Further thoughts on Eat Sleep Sit

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Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple  records the intense first year in a monastery. People get sick from Beriber...

Buddhism in Birdman

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I saw Birdman the other day and really enjoyed it. I watched it the next night too. First off I love Raymond Carver . But there are Buddhi...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Eat Sleep Sit

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Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple  has had an effect on me. I was feeding the cats, and I wondered if I could ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Kauru Nonomura

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Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple  is a memoir, translated from Japanese, of a year at a Soto Zen monastery, ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Quote from Ta-Nehisi Coates

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P. 98 Between the World and Me : "To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Between the world and me

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Coates doesn't take the turn into religion and I thought, well, his journey is very spiritual. He doesn't go into conventional rel...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

square kivas

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I asked the ranger at the Coronado Historical Site why the kivas were square. He said they don't know. Reading The Pueblo Revolt: The S...

Kwan Yin

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Mary in the new world

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We went to the New Mexico History Museum to see paintings of the divine . They have a book: Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Coronado Historical Site

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The Coronado Historical Site is a multicultural settlement, that has round Kivas and a square kiva. You can go into the kiva with a range...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

climate justice

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There's a really good section in Mind in Harmony  about hatred, and how it's a confusion. Seems to hit it right on the head. This b...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Santa Fe

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Off to visit my parents (half of them) in Santa Fe. There are three books I have read that give me a feel for Santa Fe: Banana Rose: A No...

Silence by Shusaku Endo

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"It's easy enough to die for the good and the beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt" p.38 Silence...
Sunday, August 02, 2015

looking into the sun

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It's not easy to see yourself clearly. There's a kind of confidence one needs in oneself to connect with the S angha , to go for...

Simplicity

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I'm at once impressed and feel like I could never do what the Amish do in rejecting technology. Lancaster County is a center in Penn...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Security

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Watching that documentary on Chogyam Trungpa, I thought it was silly that he created a kind of military unit, for a Buddhist community. But...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Quote

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"Without taking the humble journey of inclusiveness, our spirituality will tend to be idealized, disembodied projections and immature ...

Quote

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"We need to see how easy it is for us to be manipulated by the media toward prejudice against others whom we designate as nonhuman wit...