Sunday, December 17, 2023

Uzbekistan Buddha

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  My pop is in Berlin and saw this at a museum, from near Bukhara Uzbekistan
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Buddha Nature quote

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“…many questions a modern Westerner asks as a matter of course about human being are not directly addressed in the Buddhist texts. Of course...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Buddha Nature quote

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“…karuna is "boundless," its inferiority as compared to mahakaruna is related to their difference in essential nature: karuna'...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Happy Holidays

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  Festivus pole Norman Rockwell

Buddha

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So Monday is metta, Tuesday is anapanasati, and today I decided Thursday is for Buddhanusatti . I'm not sure if I'll fully flesh out...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Speak Your Mind

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I saw Brandi Carlile won a Emmy for her song Speak Your Mind ( Spotify ). I just listened to it. Its from We The People song about The Fir...

Ponder

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This morning I’m pondering this paragraph p.113 in Buddha Nature by Sallie King: However, rather than being a negation of such basic Buddhi...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Sunday musings

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Sunday is kind of a sacred day even if you're not Christian. My secular Jewish stepfather would play classical music. I would watch foot...
Friday, December 08, 2023

Happy Bodhi Day!

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The Associated Press tells me it's Bodhi Day. The day we celebrate the Buddha's enlightenment. I don't know much about enlighte...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Images

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Jizo or Kṣitigarbha ( Source ) Avalokita from Hanoi Vietnam Buddha and the 16 Arhats Source source Inside Cave #239 of the Mogao Grottoes. C...

Sallie B. King quote

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From Buddha Nature p.79. "Two other "causes and conditions" of the eternity of the trikaya do not seem to speak essentially ...
Friday, December 01, 2023

Metta

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The hardest stage for me in metta (self, near and dear, neutral, enemy, equalize and spread) is the neutral and equalizing. Hardest maybe is...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Lion's Roar Quote

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"One night, when I was just about to sit down on the cushion, suddenly my body, mind, and world dropped away. At the same time, everyth...