Monday, June 25, 2018

Rohingyas

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Support the Rohingyas. Listen to Vishvapani: The problems of a Buddhist state.  "Buddhists are only as good as their actions, and I ...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Tenzing Palmo

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Tenzing Palmo was born in 1943 named Diane to a fishmonger in London's East End. Her father died when she was 2. She was sickly and di...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Popular posts

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Just spent some time looking at the posts that got the most views. Quotes from other people tend to be the big winners. Sometimes subje...

#3

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Past 37 practices of a Bodhisattva by Geshe Sonam Rinchen : -1 -2 What follows is my commentary on the root text. Read the Geshe's ...

Benjamin Franklin's Parable of the Whistle

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"When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they ...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Eight Great Places: An internet pilgrimage

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I've been looking to go on pilgrimage via the internet to the 8 great places . I took this internet trip over 8 days, here is what I fo...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Fasting

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I've been  looking into  fasting. A friend has been experimenting with it and I've been talking to him about how he does it and wha...
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Monday, May 07, 2018

anger management quote?

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From page 8 of the hardcover edition of Being Wrong : "...it is surprisingly difficult to get angry unless you are either convinced ...

Quote by Kathryn Schulz

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Page 6 of Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz: "...we live in a culture that simultaneously despises error and insists that it is central...
Monday, April 30, 2018

the still small voice

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As an upshot of the English civil war , Quakerism was created. The regular person sought inwardly for the still small voice that would lea...
Friday, April 27, 2018

equanimity

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I was thinking that people who don't do metta meditation might not have a practice where they work to imagine themselves into strange...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Beauty Standard Denialism

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There's an interesting article in the NY Times about the movie I Feel Pretty . It's an interesting rumination on beauty standards....
Saturday, April 21, 2018

what I'm reading

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Sorry, I keep accidentally posting here for other blogs. Ugh. I'm reading a biography of Yogananda at the moment. I'm both repel...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

vegetarian subtext

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In The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams, she talks about how Charlotte's Web and Frankenstein have a vegetarian subtext. The s...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Demolishing Wrong View

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In Sangharakshita's latest essay "A Passage to America" he says: Though there is a great deal of suffering in the world, mu...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Where I'm at

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Approaching art as though it's dharma is a way to incorporating... I want to say the spiritual life into the spiritual life. Perfection...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

The opposite of Buddhism, still want to get rid of here

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Sometimes thoughts are so vivid in my head, I can't shake them for a while. I always say when there's a train of thought coming thr...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Reading

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There is a paradox in the seeking in the spiritual life. In the Buddhist tradition you look inwards, but to see guidance outside yourself, ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

More on violence and buddhism

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NY Times had an interesting article , with an interesting quote: "There is a philosophically problematic presupposition that also figu...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Someone asked my opinion

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What do I think about gun control? I'm against the NRA. When I taught current events, I read the paper a lot and I notic...