Sunday, October 27, 2024

Goldstein quote

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In the Bhagavad-Gita the question is asked, "Of all the world's wonders, which is the most wonderful?" The answer, "That...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Images, memes, quotes, art, photos

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Previous one  and before that .  Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu from With Each & Every Breath (2012) He's not a Buddhist, but I do think hi...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Goldstein quote

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The courage of a warrior is both required and developed in the practice of meditation. It takes courage to sit with pain, without avoiding o...

kukkucca, uddacca

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“The fourth of the hindrances the Buddha mentions in the Satipatthana Sutta are the mind states of restlessness and worry.  The Pali word fo...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Meditation support

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I've been meditating with 3 fellows in Iran for a while now.  I want to open it up to others who want support in meditation. It's 7 ...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

The Five Aggregates

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The Five Aggregates by Mathieu Boisvert, teaches at University of Quebec in Montreal, starts like this with a forward by A.K. Warder : In B...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Friend wanted a list of Sangharakshita talks

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First one is actually Christopher Titmus, What self, what world  (2005), warm up. Sangharakshita: First talk I think about is Mind Creative,...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Rosh Hashanah

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Rosh Hashanah begins ten days of penitence culminating in Yom Kippur, as well as beginning the cycle of autumnal religious festivals running...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Disappearance of consciousness

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  So thinking a lot about what you do when you get big sky mind? You just keep going is the answer.  What's after that? What do you try ...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Camus

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I feel like meditation has helped me find this:
Sunday, September 22, 2024

The system of meditation

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I learned this from Sangharakshita, and I follow Triratna Buddhism, but I've read widely in Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. I conside...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Biographies of the Buddha that I have read

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First off there's Karen Armstrong's. She's a great BBC religion presenter, and wrote a memoir about her spiritual journey as a C...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Channa

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In DN 16, the Buddha has time to initiate a last discipline  Subhadda . The Buddha says that Channa , his chariot driver supposedly when he ...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Bob's Burgers

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Bob's Burgers is an absurd cartoon about a burger joint and the family that runs it. In season 11, episode 19, Bob challenges his nemesi...

Everything all at once

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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 ...