Monday, May 31, 2021

Foreshadowing

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I'm not sure when it became a common practice to announce spoilers to those who have not read a book, but this comment will contain spoi...
Friday, May 28, 2021

KWL: Nonduality

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"The fundamental dharma of the dharma is that there are no dharmas, yet that this dharma of no-dharma is in itself a dharma; and now th...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

KWL: Nonduality

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Sounds like an ambitious project to synthesize east and west ideas about nonduality, reading David Loy's Nonduality (1984). "In my...

quote

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“Of supreme serenity, with extensive wisdom, A man of great wisdom, devoid of all greed; He is the Tathagata, he is the Sublime One, The per...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

KWL book club

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Nonduality : "In spirituality, nondualism, also called non-duality, means "not two" or "one undivided without a second...

KWL Book club on going for refuge blog

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I just got David Loy's Nonduality from the library. KWL is a way of attacking books. What do I already know? What do I want to learn? ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

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Asceticism, renunciation and strictness

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When you come at things from not having them, it's easy to be more mindful for a little while. I know how easy it is to be vegetarian be...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Kalamas Sutra

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"Don’t go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through ...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

If the Buddha doesn't "exist" anymore, what am I taking refuge in?

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If you compare Buddha to God, then he looks human and mortal. Though how you get to God existing more than the Buddha, I don't know. Not...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Poem

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How to drink water when there is wine by Barbara Kingsolver How to stay at this desk when the sun   is barefooting cartwheels over the grass...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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Saturday, May 08, 2021

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Friday, May 07, 2021

Dhammapada quote

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Thursday, May 06, 2021

They quote

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Book by Margret Grebowicz

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  Margret Grebowicz has a 96 page exploration of the many meanings of mountaineering. Just as you can be an internal adventurer with medita...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

Impermanence

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I've been going to the park with my daughter and I see people aging before my very eyes. I guess I didn't notice it until I started ...

Dante’s old man of Crete

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Dante writes about the old man of Crete. He starts out in gold at the top of his head. It changes to silver, brass going down. Lower trunk o...

When the sangha has your back

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Saturday, May 01, 2021

Dante Alighieri

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  The above is from my translation by Nichols.  I've been reading The Divine Comedy through Buddhist eyes and ethics. They way he tells...