Sunday, August 25, 2024

Ancient expression of well wishing metta

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The Sutra of Golden Light is estimated to have been accumulated around 2000 years ago, and contain an ancient well wishing and expression o...
Friday, August 23, 2024

A confession from the Sutra of the Golden Light

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I confess today, single-mindedly, all of The extremely heavy bad actions, The sins that I have committed in the past. I have constantly comm...

Reading The Sutra of the Golden Light

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In chapter 1, the question for me is, what would I want a sacred text to do to me? It makes all sort of extravagant promises about the impac...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Rebecca Solnit

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I listen to stuff that's been said so long ago, so it's cool to watch something 15 hours ago. There's a talk by Rebecca Solnit o...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Budai

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"Cloth Bag got his nickname because he wandered from town to town carrying a cloth bag full of treasures that he shared freely with chi...
Monday, August 19, 2024

eight liberations

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There are, Ananda, these eight liberations, What are they? 1) Possessing form, one sees forms. That is the first liberation. (2) Not perceiv...

DN 15:29

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'Pleasant feeling is impermanent, conditioned, dependently-arisen, bound to decay, to vanish, to fade away, to cease - and so too are pa...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

four comrade dhammas

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"The four comrade dhammas are sati [mindfulness], panna [wisdom], sampajanna [wisdom in action], and samadhi [concentration]. You will ...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra

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When Sangharakshita read the Diamond Sutra at 16 he realized he was a Buddhist. I didn't realize I was a Buddhist until I took a meditat...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Vedena

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“The feelings are the second item. If you are unaware of the feelings, you might think they are unimportant. In reality, they are of the gre...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Yulin Caves and Yellow River Odyssey tidbits

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This is listed as having been done around 1038 to 1227 in the Yulin Caves which Bill Porter doesn't write much about because he was sic...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

The Great Discourse on Lineage

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Digha Nikaya 14  (Sujato translation). I'm reading the Maurice Walshe translation hard copy I have. So everyone is sitting around and th...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

I've always wondered why...

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“[Some] Buddhist monks are prohibited from eating the ‘five hots’ or five pungent roots: garlic, shallots, chives, onion and leeks, because ...
Monday, August 05, 2024

Throw it back

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"The last step, the fourth step of the fourth tetrad, the sixteenth step of anapanasati is called patinissagganupassana (contemplating ...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Dunhuang Caves link

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Found an interesting link to the Dunhuang Caves: Link  is to Getty. Wikipedia calls them Mogao Caves , I think Dunhuang is a subset. I have ...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

meat eating

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I see a lot of question on Reddit asking if people can be meat eaters and be a Buddhist, so when I read this I thought it discussed the topi...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The Yellow River Odyssey

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Porter has many travel in China books, that I have greatly enjoyed, and poetry translations of Stonehouse and Cold Mountain, and translation...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Araka was Heraclitus?!

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Wrathful Green Tara The timeline lines up, to the extent that we actually know the timelines, it's possible the Buddha was referring to...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Vajrapani

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He's one of the wrathful forms of Tibetan iconography, a protector of the Dharma. He can represent fierce energy. He is also called Chan...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Mindfulness of Dharma

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“Having well relinquished and extinguished desire and dejection in relation to body, feeling tones, and mind, at that time a noble disciple ...