Saturday, June 28, 2025

Stolen Artifacts graphic

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  Returned artifacts articles: USA to Egypt I'm sunsetting this blog, going for refuge. Follow me at  Friendship with Shams , my new Bud...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

South of the Yangtze

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I'm reading my final Bill Porter (Red Pine) travel book: South of the Yangtze .  Bill Porter has 6 amazing travel books in China, from w...
Monday, February 03, 2025

Quote

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“For many decades, I’ve felt that it was my responsibility, together with my hundreds and thousands of colleagues, to address and change the...
Saturday, February 01, 2025

Wandering Mind

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We are the progeny of countless generations of ancestors who had to not become totally fixated on what they were doing. Those who did become...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Green Stupa

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The Chengling Stupa, also known as "Green Stupa", was built in 867 and has been rebuilt numerous times since then. the stupa is mu...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Nagarjana's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

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Slowly studying the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā of Nagarjuna . Reading very slowly. Watching a bunch of videos around him in the hopes it provides ...

quote

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"You must also “guard the doors of the sense faculties” lest “evil unwholesome states assail” you. This does not mean you don’t look, y...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Images, memes, quotes, art, rupas, statues

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Statues of Mahasthamaprapta and Avalokitesvara on lotus pedestals. China, Northern Qi dynasty, 6th century AD A source , M source Second bi...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Favorite books 2024

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Not published in 2024, because I didn't get to any of those. Closest I got was 2015, I started trying to read Right Concentration by Le...
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...