Friday, December 30, 2022

Poem

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Want the change  by  Rainer Maria Rilke ( English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Schadenfreude

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I'm so slow, I make connections at a glacial pace. I was thinking about how I actually enjoy that that woman who had a meltdown about th...

Master Sheng-yen

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There's a great documentary  (1:15) about  Master Sheng Yen . He was born in China and spread the Dharma to Queens New York. I'm alw...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Ajahn Chah

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Ajahn Chah once said: "As far as I understand, Christianity teaches people to do good and avoid evil, just as Buddhism does, so what is...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Kitchen mindfulness

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Winter solstice, I was cutting up onions, and I felt gratitude for Anandi teaching me her kitchen knowledge, which in part is mindfulness in...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Rudolph’s holiday advice

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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Time

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The cosmic view of time is utilized to open up the mind, how our lives are so short, and we can have a little more wisdom in our view of lif...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Listening to talks on Madhyamaka

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Madhyamaka  is  Nagarjuna 's articulation of the Dharma. Nepalese from Cleveland Art Museum These are short: What is the Madhyamaka trad...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Today is the day Ambedkar died

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar lived 3 April 1952 – 6 December 1956. He was born untouchable in India. He would sit outside the classroom and look t...
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...