Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Job

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Because Christianity permeates the USA, I need to head into it and read. My grandparents were religious, my grandfather was a Baptist minist...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Musk disrespect?

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  I’ll tell you one thing, he doesn’t keep the precepts. But a voice in my head tells me to focus on myself and not worry about others. The ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Cory Muscara

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From Twitter by Cory Muscara : I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet. Here...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Purity by means of rebirth

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“There are some contemplatives & brahmans with this doctrine, this view: ‘Purity is by means of rebirth.’ But it’s not easy to find a re...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Images plus

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  A Buddhist can ask: what are the conditions that allow for this: At least 5 people killed, 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Not recommended

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The Buddha’s report of his asceticism: “I was an ascetic, the most extreme ascetic. I was rough, the most extreme in roughness. I was scrupu...
Friday, November 04, 2022

PBS Journeys Into Buddhism

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Vajra Sky Over Tibet  (2013)(125 minutes). Why did great Buddhist civilizations vanish? John Bush is the filmmaker. They went to Tibet, wit...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Means and ends

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  Source Ksitigarbha hears the cries of the world and voluntarily enters the hell realms to provide support. The current society in the USA ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Obstacles

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What are the obstacles? I'm reading the 21 praises of Green Tara and thinking about obstacles. One hundred full autumn moons gathered t...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

4 foundations of mindfulness

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Wes Nisker has a Wikipedia entry. He worked on radio and started publishing Buddhist books in 1998. He founded a Buddhist journal called I...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Why Is Buddhism True by Robert Wright

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Part one: Culture riff I'm listening to Why Buddhism Is True. He uses an objective scientific language to justy a secular Buddhism. He f...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

How I know I'm not enlightened

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I make gaffs and say things that upset people. I still have the desire to get attention through provocative actions because I need attention...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Fruits of the practice according to Buddhaghosa

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"Pleasant dwelling in the happiness of truth in the present life; enjoyment of all objects through investigation; acquisition of worldl...
Saturday, October 08, 2022

Vimuttimagga and Visuddhimagga

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If I waited till I fully grok a text, I would never write, and that might be the best thing, but I find value in expressing incomplete thoug...