Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Sangha

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Monday, March 29, 2021

The Great Failure

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I've been looking for a book that discusses these issues since the breaking in 1997 of Sangharakshita's misconduct, for which he has...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Full moon head shave

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Shaving the head is a superficial act, and selfies are egotistical, but I noticed since I hit a certain age, I stopped posting pictures of m...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Don't be political as a Buddhist?

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I've become radicalized by the past few years in the USA. The following is a check to expressing my opinion as a Buddhist. I respect Rat...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Questions

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"I would love to know what you personally believe and how you practice your belief? For instance, how do you personally practice the Ei...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Metta Sutta

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I don't want to go into the details, and I'm probably going about it all wrong. I was reading the metta sutta today. I'm strivin...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Will try reading

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There is a good review of the book on Buddhist Fiction Blog This book came out in 2008. Originally published in French. This novelization i...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

A theme song for the 6 element practice

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 Harry Belafonte has a song called Turn the World Around: We come from the fire Livin' in the fire Go back to the fire Turn The World ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

NKT

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 I just read the Tricycle article  "The One Pure Dharma: The New Kadampa Tradition is controversial—and growing. Why?"  which came...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Swastika

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  Buddhist monk raises awareness about the swastika’s original meaning
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Emily Dickinson mentions enlightenment

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CXI  A DOOR just opened on a street—   I, lost, was passing by— An instant’s width of warmth disclosed,   And wealth, and company. The door ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Gospel is amazing

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I know I'm no theist Christian, but I do like some Gospel Music. Balm of Galead : Frederick Douglass heard this one in the woods when ev...

The problem of evil

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My first semester introduction to philosophy was basically a whole year on the idea of free will.  The concept was used as an ad hoc solutio...

KonMari question

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I'm just starting the KonMari book . I love books, walls of books, books like tumbleweed. But each individual book, I like the idea and ...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

7 deadly sins in America

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Friday, March 12, 2021

American Sutra by Duncan Ryuken Williams

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The opening poem to the book American Sutra Nyogen Senzaki  was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents o...

Shadow

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3 Lakshana Reddit

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Slowly slowly I'm figuring out social media. I like Reddit because you can write your opinion and if it's not useful, nobody upvotes...

Festival Days

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Copy and pasting info from Aryaloka out of laziness: "Parinirvana commemorates the death of the Buddha Shakyamuni and provides an oppo...

Quotes from Boundless Hears by Christine Feldman

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  P 136, "A world of distress is born of the ongoing argument we have with the unarguable." I looked back at my blog in 2017, when...