Friday, September 13, 2024

Pilgrimage

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DN 16 the Mahaparinibbana Sutta suggests 4 holy places. Where the Buddha was born in Lumbini . Where he got enlightened: Bodh Gaya . Where h...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Poem

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Shrine flowers teaching impermanence and joy one flower  still opens up a few days later I want to learn how to open up with no nourishment ...

Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein has 33 talks on the Satipatthana Sutta. April 2004 on YouTube on AudioBuddha . In the first one his some background to his...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Ambapali

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They derisively called her the mango woman, the courtesan who wanted to see the Buddha. She locked wheels with other vehicles trying to get ...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

Empty Cloud

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Today is  Empty Cloud's ( Xu-yun ) birthday. He lived to be 119, and wrote a memoir about his life. I found the earlier parts best. He ...
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

19 September 2024 Met exhibit on Mandalas opens

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"Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, an exhibition that will showcase a wide range of Himalayan Buddhist devotional art. Sched...
Monday, September 02, 2024

The protectors

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I do a puja and I confess to the protectors. One time I asked what protections are there in Buddhism, are on Reddit and I was sent to the Lo...
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 ...