Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Sounds like a Pure Land to me:

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"the place where I’d grown up and that I’d once described as the warmest, most generous place on earth, where parents routinely took i...

Lama Surya Das

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Fulfillment Prayer   May all those who offered me food & nourishment this year attain the sublime happiness of total peace and conte...
Friday, November 23, 2018

When Breath Becomes Air

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I stopped taking an SSRI a couple of months ago, and the only symptom so far that I can see, is that I cry fairly regularly. Often it i...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Gus' Fortunate Misfortune

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I love a children's book where a Buddhist monk is present, and is kind. This is a good and long book with wonderful illustrations....
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Ashoka on Netflix

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How did I miss this in 2001? Been watching Ashoka on Netflix, with subtitles. My guru, I mean my daughter, keeps stepping in front of ...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Ambattha Sutta

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Access to Insight skips DN 3-8 . When you look at the  Ambattha Sutta  on Wikipitaka you can understand why. It seems to be a confrontation...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life

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DN 2 is the  Samaññaphala Sutta . The setting is Rajagaha: King Ajatasattu sees it is a beautiful night, full moon, and wants to go se...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Bante's funeral

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The funeral was streamed on FB. I saw Vajramati do an offering. I will be forever grateful to him for teaching me meditation and guid...
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Brahmajāla Sutta

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I am going to honor my teacher's passing by studying the Dharma closely in the Pali Cannon. Access to Insight has the sutta. T...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

Systematic Reading

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I've been going through a list of Shakespeare plays, that was assembled in guesstimates of being published. I have read a lot of Shakes...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Poem by Sangharakshita

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Secret Wings We cry that we are weak although We will not stir our secret wings; The world is dark - because we are Blind to the starriness...

Resilience

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There is a strength, fortitude, and persistence one needs to follow the path. (I have been pulled by the undertow away at times.) Thus ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Self defense versus aggression?

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The question for me with Myanmar and the well documented ( 1 , 2  ...) persecution and genocide of the  Rohingya Muslims, is how does o...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

A story I hadn't heard before

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When it came out that the Buddha was going to let himself die, his stepmother asked if she could go first, and she led many of her elde...
Monday, October 01, 2018

sleep

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(Rupa at DHARMADHARA (Lake Country CA))  I noticed that sleep was not on list of asceticism the Buddha tried ( link to book  I'...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Reincarnation

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Reincarnation was one of the ideas that seemed like a religious metaphysic that did not correlate with Buddhism's minimalist method...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Chapter 6

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It's amazing that the Buddha knew there was more out there. He'd tasted the heights of pleasure (for a heterosexual) by living ...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

confidence

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(from the Ruben Museum ) "..saddha is precisely the confidence that it is possible to liberate one's mind from hinderance and...
Friday, September 14, 2018

#4

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Previous practices of the Bodhisattva : #1 ,   #2 ,   #3 ,   #3  . OK, so I did #3 twice. Now onto #4 Loved ones who have long kept co...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

quote from Analayo book, chapter 3

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Continued reflections on A Meditator's Life of the Buddha. "[When] a thought without sensual desire arose in me, I thought of it...