Tuesday, December 19, 2017

227 rules

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"Should any bhikkhu knowingly deprive an animal of life, it is to be confessed." The above is from the 227 rules of conduct for ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Contemplating the Buddha

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My two gurus. The Buddha has shown me so many things about my mind, and launched great curiosity. My daughter is so curious, kind and sh...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

#3

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I've gotten away from moving through the 37 Bodhisattva practices : #1 and #2 are done. The third practices is: By avoiding bad o...

Bodhisattva fever

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Started reading Training The Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa . He's got interesting language, "bodhisattv...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Love continued

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In all about love , the chapter on mutuality was a bit challenging to hear, but I can't say hooks is wrong. She contends that men seek ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Love

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bell hooks had a powerful chapter on greed in her book all about love . I'm not going to summarize or quote it. It moved me a lot. ho...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Parenting and the dhamma

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"If you’re a parent, for instance, a large component of your practice might center on understanding and thereby attempting to re...
Monday, November 06, 2017

Lying

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In bell hooks' all about love she writes about the importance of honesty in association with love in chapter 3. When someone asks her ...
Friday, November 03, 2017

Love

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  In bell hooks' all about love she likes Scott Peck 's definition of love as "the will to extend one's self for the ...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Mistakes

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For some reason Blogger has been making it hard, and I've been making mistakes and publishing other blogs here. Sorry about that.
Saturday, September 30, 2017

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Vegan treats to explore in Gotham. Enjoy. 😊 Bakeries, NYC 1) BrooklynWhiskersBakery.com Bushwick 2) ClementineBakery.com Clinton Hill 3) Br...
Monday, September 18, 2017

One Dharma

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This text is from The Excellent Path to Enlightenment .  He says they are all the paths to Enlightenment, his is just o...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Bodhisattva

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Friday, September 15, 2017

Skeptical Vegan

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Starting to read The Skeptical Vegan . Cori says they are good recipes. Here is a quote from the forward written by Victoria Moran, vagans ...

interesting?

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I haven't been close to the TBC for the past 5 years, but I'm on Facebook and still have many friends from the TBC. This post is su...
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Resolution?

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  The above was just a quote I liked. There's an opposite one about how good action pile up as well. On page 120 of the hard...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

The biggest thing you can do to help the envirnment

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Just watched Cowspiracy and What The Health . (Both on Netflix in the USA by the way.) Now I've said I have 3 reasons to be vegan: E...

One Dharma

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I was wondering if One Dharma would resolve the arhant v. bodhisattva debate, which of course I realized is no problem. The Buddha was in ...
Friday, September 08, 2017

One Dharma

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 I started One Dharma today. The book came out when I was just getting into Buddhism, but I'm just getting to it now. It's one of ...

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar, and the Rohingya

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I've found a few links to explain, from a perspective of course, what is going on in Myanmar. I am not sure how accurate these things a...