Thursday, August 31, 2023

Lashon hara

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Learned this concept  by reading the Wikipedia entry: Lashon hara "is the halakhic term for speech about a person or persons that is n...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Rapture

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I feel rapture in my meditation in a way I've never been aware of it before. It's like my life force and energy are surging forward....
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Mental formations

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A mental formation I can get upset about is the idea that you can be murdered for displaying a flag that signals tolerance for others sexual...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Buddha-Nature

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Before I go into studying this book, I'm going to express my reservation. Having Buddha nature in us still doesn't absolve us from p...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Becky Chambers quote

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I don’t feel as though I have to confine myself to the subset of thoughts in the Pali Cannon or prescribed thoughts. Maybe there's nothi...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion

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Read an article about Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion in the Guardian . Listened to it on Spotify . "Buddha Passion was inspired by murals dat...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Shelter in place

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I heard a talk once about a pilgrimage around an island Shikoku in Japan, where you dress in white robes, and you hike around the island an...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Recent Buddhism information, found things

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  Review of Met show in Washington Post. Oakland Buddha "You can see that with this deep divide now in the United States based on igno...
Monday, August 07, 2023

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga

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I know just mentioning Buddhism in a works of art, will hardly lead one to enlightenment, but still it's rare enough in English for me t...
Tuesday, July 04, 2023

168th Anniversary of publication of Leaves of Grass

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 “I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder.” “I celebrate myself, ...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Kobat-Zinn’s appreciation

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About Analayo: “ his emphasis on gentleness and non-striving and openness, rather than contracting around any one view or teaching. Rather t...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

gobbledygook of my own making

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Through the magic of technology, I'm meditating with a master. It's amazing. I'm so grateful. I hear birds in England and birds ...
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...