Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Recognizing a Buddha

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I was reading The Life of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Nanamoli this morning. It's a collection of Pali Canon. The Pali Canon are the memorize...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

William Ellery Channing Poem

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  My Symphony To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury,     and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy no...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

More evidence that I'm not enlightened.

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"He adds sauce in the right proportions." (p. 191, Nanamoli). I put too much BBQ sauce on my potato medley the other day, another ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

joie de vivre

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That science is supplanting some of the space mythology had is OK. We can look at the cosmic perspective in Buddhist mythology with great ti...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Brandi M. Carlile / Phillip John Hanseroth / Timothy Jay Hanseroth

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…Hang on, just hang on for a minute I've got something to say I'm not asking you to move on or forget it But these are better days T...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Korean Zen - By Mu Soe

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Yan Lianke novel quotes

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“The fact that Yahui, an eighteen-year-old "jade nun," would soon become the object of the Daist Mingzheng's love was somethin...
Friday, May 05, 2023

Vesak Day

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Vesak Day is May 5th. I'm focused on not forcing myself to feel a certain way, but this is the day to let joyful emotions loose that I ...
Monday, May 01, 2023

May Day

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Buddhism might seem to not be political but if you’re for the alleviating of suffering of all people, political good, a shocking idea to man...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Bodhidharma on fasts

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“The same holds true for observing a fast. It’s useless unless you understand what this really means. To fast means to regulate, to regulate...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Images

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 Dallas Singapore  Amitabha Sweden Bodisattva Maitreya in Abhaya Mudra, Kushan period, India, 2nd century C.E. (2500x3833) Amitabha Pureland

Dalai Lama

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I've sat on writing this because I was waiting for the article that explains it all in the proper context, and that article came out yes...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Ambedkar!

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It's easy to remember because my son was born on the same day! Jai Bhim! Link: to He Dared To Fight , about Babasaheb Ambedkar, 36 playe...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Bodhidharma

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"I only talk about seeing your nature. I don’t talk about creating karma. Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us. Throug...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Bodhidharma

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“When Bodhidharma arrived in China, in the latter part of the fifth century, there were approximately 2,000 Buddhist temples and 36,000 cler...
Friday, March 17, 2023

New York

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“How do we take a city that is the center of the power of America and turn it into a city, when you enter it, everyone sees faith and sees ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Sacred Tattoos of Thailand.

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Watched documentary: The Sacred Tattoos of Thailand . Seems interesting, but when the guy says he broke the precept of not having a woman on...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Revolution

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(I'm kind of struck by the commitment to the Mandalorian tradition in this Star Wars story.) The revolution of being a Buddhist has many...