Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Musings

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I'm not looking down on the Buddha, but it is an interesting viewpoint in the photo. You see his hand and knees quite clearly. ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Hinderances and circumstances

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Another aspect of the hinderances is that they are very ego driven, and therefore they are an opportunity to observe the self. It'...

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Thinking more about Ajahn Theradhammo's book The Five Hinderances, it's almost a Padmasambhava point--that you don't get r...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Five Hinderances

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I started reading Working With The Five Hinderances  by Ajahn Theradhammo (I think his name means strong with the Dharma, but it coul...
Sunday, January 01, 2017

Vegan 2017

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I don't really believe in new years resolutions, because I'm always taking steps forward (sometimes backwards temporarily) and the ...

Best book of 2016

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The runners up are Radical Dharma , Time To Stand Up and The Buddha's Wife . In an age when legitimate concerns are ghettoized in ...

Tibetan Pop Star: Ani Choying Drolma

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Ani Choying Drolma is supposedly the Tibetan pop star, according to Lion's Roar . Check her out on Spotify. She has an awesom...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Fire

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Sangharakshita, in the meditation anthology , talks about saying "sit" instead of "meditation". His take was that ...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Hannah, the movie

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There aren't a whole lot of Buddhist movies that I know of. On Netflix now,  Hannah is about Hannah Nydahl , a Danish woman who set up...

The days are getting longer

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In The Purpose and Practice of Meditation  Sangharakshita suggests that 2 hours of meditation a day are the minimum. He's quite careful...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Winter Solstice

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Looking into the various pagan holidays, Saturnalia the master serves the slave. I don't really have any slaves, and I'm not s...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Octavia Butler

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Octavia Butler is my new favorite writer. I've read 9 of her books and I have 3 left. Her series' go from 4 books to 3 books to...

Life 2007-2009

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This TV show has a main character that is influenced by what seems to be Zen. He's in the moment. He listens to tapes. It gave him som...
Monday, October 17, 2016

With Mindfulness, strive on

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In college, many moons ago, I was in an aesthetics class. I read Arthur Danto 's book The State of Art . Aside from the Tilted Arc stuf...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

Higher Power

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So my partner had some time to blog , so I'm inspired to blog. Chapter 4 in The Philosophical Baby  talks a lot about Buddhism and co...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Spring Azures

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Spring Azures - Mary Oliver In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they ris...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Thicket of views

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I don't want to enter into the controversy and sectarianism of Japanese Buddhism. I did find a anit-SGI blog that is pure land:  http:/...
Monday, August 15, 2016

itchy

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Finished Abundant, Exhalted, Immeasurable   by Pasanno, a Theravadan from the lineage of Ajahn Chah, from the Thai Forest Tradition. It put...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Dukkha

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A quote from a movie written by one of the creators of BoJack Horseman: Here’s the problem with everything. As soon as you get something yo...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Nina Simone

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The name of this tune is Mississippi Goddam And I mean every word of it Alabama's gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my r...