Tag: buddhism
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November 05, 2009 02:37 PM EST --
[This is a good translation of one of my favorite Jatakas.]
Some childre n were playing beside a river. They made castles of sand, and each child defended his castle and said,"This one is . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:44 PM EST --
"The soul has to go on loving in the emptiness, or at least to go on wanting to love, though it may only be with an infinitesimal part of itself."
- Simone Weil
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May 17, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
This is the fourth article in a series on "World Religions" for "Spirituality Explorers". Most people have some curiosity about and interest in learning about other religions. . . .
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October 02, 2009 01:50 PM EDT --
[ This is one of my favorite stories of Siddartha Gautama. I'm not sure if it's from the Jataka, a Sutra, or just a cultural story. This is a good telling and seems to come from a good . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Homemade Soba Noodles
“My wife’s mother is making soba noodles for us for dinner.” Buddhist Monk Yoshihiro Unezawa told me and made a circular motion with his hands - the . . .
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November 09, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed for the Daily Californian. It is a great article and I wanted to share it!
Faces of Berkeley: Buddhist Works to Escape Homelessness
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=26674 . . .
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July 13, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
When I was a sophomore in high school, my parents divorced and my mother and I moved to Rapid City, South Dakota to live with my aunt. The high school there was almost as large as my hometown . . .
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July 21, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
Okay; What did the Buddha teach?
I'll check back Sunday and see if there are some opinions and views expressed herein...
Peace.
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July 16, 2008 01:23 PM EDT --
"If the minds of living beings are impure, their land
is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are
not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies . . .
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October 09, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
“There are many ways to enter the Path, but briefly speaking they are of two sorts only. The one is "Entrance by Reason" and the other "Entrance by Conduct."
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November 11, 2007 08:04 PM EST --
Buddha in Glory
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond, that closes tightly in and sweetens,--
this entire world out to all the stars
is your fruit-flesh: we greet you.
Look, you feel how . . .
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January 18, 2008 01:34 PM EST --
Back in the early days of Amazon, someone decided that, while books should be rated on a five-point scale, reviews should be either 'useful?' or 'not useful?'. What a good idea. Something . . .
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February 08, 2007 01:42 PM EST --
Buddhism is a religion. Random's first law of religious thermodynamics is: religions (like bananas) split.
Thus, there are various Buddhisms, A to Zen.
A Zen Buddhist leader asked his followers, . . .
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May 31, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
According to the Tibetan Buddhists, today (May 31, 2007) is a day when you need to be extremely careful about what you say and do - good and bad. That's because today is Saka Gawa, the day of the full . . .
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June 02, 2007 02:41 PM EDT --
We Are What We Pray!
There are as many ways to look at a person as there are people on the planet.
There are taller and shorter, thinner and wider, louder and softer voiced folks;
Darker, lighter, . . .
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November 10, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
"You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can't solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important."
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November 09, 2009 07:19 PM EST --
Wishing you a wonderful Lhabab Düchen - such a good start to an eventful astrological week! I thought you might like to know (if you didn't already) that today, Monday November . . .
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February 28, 2007 09:41 PM EST --
This week has been a rough one for me. I am new to this community and so a little introduction is warranted. I am a nurse, I work in orthopaedics, managing a large surgical clinic, and my job is a daily . . .
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March 15, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
First, I should say that I have visited Lhasa seven times over the past 12 years. I have memories indelibly etched into my mind of the streets, the monasteries, the farms and sacred places, the mountains . . .
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July 30, 2006 11:26 PM EDT --
A pillow sits on the wood floor of my office. It's an ordinary meditation pillow - maroon and pink, circular, short, embroidered with cascading triangles and filled with dried buckwheat. Some people . . .
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