Saturday, December 28, 2024

Brahmavihara

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According to Peter Harvey, the Buddhist scriptures acknowledge that the four Brahmavihara meditation practices "did not originate withi...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Dale DeBakcsy

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Dale DeBakcsy has an article entitled " The dark side of Buddhism " in The New Humanist  from 2013. Karma "gets insidious is...

Buddhanasati collection

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1. Found this talk on  Dhamma Talks at Dhammagiri , and thought to create a post where I collect them. This one is based off  Mahanama Sutta...
Friday, December 20, 2024

First ever International Meditation Day

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December 21, tomorrow, Saturday, is the first International Meditation Day. Read the UN Declaration .
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

This generation delights in attachment

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“This Dhamma that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-ex...
Sunday, December 08, 2024

Justified murder?

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  Luigi Mangione murdered a health insurance executive Brian Thompson. The bullet casings said "deny", "defend" and ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Muqi

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Muqi is a 13th century Chinese monk who was also an artist. Pronounced /moo CHI/ by Professor James Cahill. Also spelled Muxi. I thought of...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Piti

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There's a plastic tarp caught in a tree. Some painters were loading up their truck and it flew away and they were not able to retrieve i...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

Bhilkkhu Bodhi In The Lion’s Roar

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" I here find myself compelled to dissent from a typical response I often encounter among Western Buddhists. This is the response which...
Friday, November 01, 2024

Holidays

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Yesterday was  Dia de los Muertos is a remembrance of ancestors, a holiday from our Mexican brothers and sisters. Yesterday was Halloween i...
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: