Friday, March 24, 2017

Words at the Threshold

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Started reading WORDS AT THE THRESHOLD   by Lisa Smartt. This is a book about what people say at the end of their life. It spawned the data...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

chapter 5

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Alan Watts' book Psychotherapy East and West , treats Buddhist liberation as another boondoggle by civilization to tame humans. So you ...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Chapter 4 Psychotherapy East and West

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This book seems to get better going forward. The Countergame chapter is an intense critique of psychotherapy, and presents it as similar to...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

37 Practices of Bodhisattvas

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The Thirty-Seven Practices of Boddhisattvas is from the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the tradition that the Dali Lama is in. I h...
Friday, February 24, 2017

doubt hinderance

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Sangharakshita is said that the spiritual life is caught not taught. How one develops spiritual interest and momentum is an interesting thi...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Listening to myself

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It's a hinderance of mine that I get excited about ideas. It's sense pleasure once again leading me away from the focus on my breat...

Chapter 4 Psychotherapy East and West

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Psychotherapy East and West by Watts Chapter IV: Through A Glass Darkly: The chapter starts out comparing scientific views that are expe...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Alan Watts reprint of 1961 book

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The First Half of Psychotherapy East and West: In the first chapter of Psychotherapy East and West he skates along big ideas, and typica...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Alan Watts Psychotherapy East and West

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Alan Watts Psychotherapy East and West has been reissued now that it's 56 years old. In the preface he talks about all the places whe...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Ill Will

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Read the part of Working With The Five Hinderances   the is about ill will. Our current president is firing off ill will in me a lot. N...
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...