Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Early morning

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Huang Er Chuan My best routine is to wake up, read some, and meditate. Today I read Anamatagga Samuta (see below SN 15.3) It's a full m...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Haiku

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Haiku isn't necessarily a Buddhist or Zen mode of communication, but you can't help but getting Buddhism with anything created in J...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Poem by Thoreau

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Joy, delight and other positive emotions

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I've never heard of Jill Shepherd before, but somehow I got hipped to this podcast . I particularly liked the idea that pain is like vel...
Sunday, December 27, 2020

Grogu and refuge tree

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This is the opening of Barak Obama's presidential memoir, which I'm reading right now.   I know "the force" isn't exac...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

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I'm reading Sigrid Nunez 's The Friend and she's describing a woman she knew who was a good writer, but took a meditation retrea...

Happy Buddhamas

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Reading up on Yule

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I'm a Buddhist who loves mythology, anthropology, Jungian archetypes, non-Jungian archetypes, and all kinds of thinking, not just emotio...

Vegan memes

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Friday, December 18, 2020

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Poem

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I sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame  I hear secret co...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Book of the Year 2020

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My Dharma reading has focused more on the Pali Canon, but I did read a wonderful book called The Circle of the Way , and it filled me in on ...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

The meaning of Buddhamas

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We make up the world with our minds. Syncretism is the one true religion. We weave together a bunch of traditions that we experienced. I gre...
Monday, December 07, 2020

Bodhi Day December 8th 2020

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The day before Bodhi Day, I meditated metta (universal lovingkindness). I realized (again and again and again) the hard one was neutral. I s...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Happy Krampusnacht

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  Tonight the Krampus roams about punishing naughty children. My daughter reports Krampus didn't visit her. She's a good girl. Para...
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...