Friday, June 03, 2016

update

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Above 1008 Green Tara's for your consideration. Here's a PDF of some holy places of the Buddha taken in 2009. I added  Budd...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Refuge Recovery Phone Meetings

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**Open Refuge Recovery Phone Meetings** Mondays, 6:00PM PDT/9:00PM EDT Book Study: Guided meditation, followed by a topic-by-topic study...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Poem

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At the Corner Store - Alison Luterman He was a new old man behind the counter, skinny, brown and eager. He greeted me like a long-lost d...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

How did I miss this book?

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I heard about this book on a Dharma Punx retreat: Awakening Through Love  which came out in 2007. I went back and looked at my 141 post...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Coming June 14th

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I always get a little excited when I read these words. I chant them in my pujas. This is a photograph from the book Radical Dharma . ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Satyagraha

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I found this draft from a while ago: Oct. 28 2011 Learning about Satyagraha, the opera by Philip Glass, in preparation for attending it a...

my mala

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I found this in my drafts for 2014 My partner gave me an awesome mala a while ago. I've used the mala to do mantras. My son did a...

Rev. angel Kyodo Williams' Warrior-Spirit Prayer of Awakening

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Rev. angel Kyodo Williams' Warrior-Spirit Prayer of Awakening: May all beings be granted with the strength, determination and wisdom ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Radical Dharma

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I have long noticed that the Dharma seems to be for white people. From posting lyrics  to quotes from Ta-Nehisi Coastes  to quotes from...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Long Time No Blog

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Update: First off, I finished Great Faith, Great Wisdom . Excellent book. Didn't know what to say about it, so I guess I didn'...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Shop

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

New Book

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Somehow I missed Great Faith, Great Wisdom coming out March 8th. I'm 21 days behind. I know I want to read this book, because The Art ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2016

calm so deep

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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Reader response

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Finished reading Eight Step Recovery . I enjoyed the integration of Buddhism and recovery. Many interesting thoughts on shame spirals and s...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

live the questions

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Among the best advice I ever got was to live the questions, from someone who got it from Rilke. Reading Eight Step Recovery: Using the Bu...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Obeisance to Manjushri

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Obeisance to Manjushri Obeisance to my Guru and Protector Manjushri, Who holds to his heart a scriptural text, symbolic of his seeing all ...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

Vegan

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I passed a test yesterday. I went to an Italian place and didn't get any cheese. Got a veggie wrap. I've decided to be vegan in the...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Porgy and Bess "I got plenty o' nuttin'"

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Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin' And nuttin's plenty for me I got no car, got no mule I got no misery De folks wid plenty o' ple...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Addiction and Buddhism links

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I celebrate 90 days clean and sober. Looking for websites for a blog post helps me out to find out what resources there are out there on th...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Namo Amithabha

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