Sunday, November 29, 2020

epistemology psychological point

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I love an epistemology psychological point. Racism is hard to see if you don't personally experience it.  Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett is i...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Zorba The Greek

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1. I read this book in the 80's for a comparative literature class, and didn't pick up on the Buddhism. At that time I was years awa...
Friday, November 20, 2020

La Traviata

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The Fallen Woman is about a courtesan (Violetta) who is sick with consumption. The opera is by Verdi and it's on the Met for free today...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Odds and ends Links

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Visuddhimagga Study Group Podcast Visuddhimagga The Buddha and his natural environment in Thai manuscript art I read a prequel and watched P...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Memes

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Wednesday, November 04, 2020

November 4th USA

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Theradithi's drawing Love these YouTube monk talks. This one is " How To Sustain Your Mindfulness ". Going to listen to one ev...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Samhain, Day of the Dead and Halloween

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Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year. This is ...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Ten precepts combined negative and positive.

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1. Abstention from killing of living beings. With deeds of loving-kindness I purify my body. 2. Abstention from taking the non-given. With o...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Wheel of Life

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I have a similar poster of the Tibetan Wheel of Life  (Bhavacakra). Sometimes I just stand and look at it for a while. I consider staring at...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Skandhas and Nidanas

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I've forgotten my desire to be mindful of the 5 skandhas . I was reading the Nidanasanyutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, and it occured to me...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Gandharan Buddhist Texts

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"More than twenty years have passed since twenty-eight fragile birch bark scrolls, now known to be the oldest surviving Buddhist manusc...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Trees

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Grief

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  I lost a high school friend and I'm wanting to explore grief. Many people I know have grief of the early loss of a love one as a big s...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Mala practice

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I was stuck in a waiting room and among the things I did to pass the time, I did 10 times around my mala. That's 1080 mantras. I was won...

Spiritual Materialism

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I wrote asking what the positive American Dharma will be, but there's also a negative version. Spiritual materialism. Maybe that's ...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Thay

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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Approach to food and nutrition (SN 63:3)

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And how should you regard solid food? Suppose a couple who were husband and wife set out to cross a desert, taking limited supplies. They ha...
Monday, October 05, 2020

SN 12.60 section

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  “It’s incredible, sir! It’s amazing, in that this dependent origination is deep and appears deep, yet to me it seems as plain as can be.” ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Quotes from article by Remski about Shambhala

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Survivors of an International Buddhist Cult Share Their Stories by MATTHEW REMSKI  This is an article about Shambhala and Chogyam Trungpa. ...