• The Heart Of The Heart Sutra

    Updated: 2010-09-02 17:29:56

  • Good, Beta, Best

    Updated: 2010-09-02 17:21:24
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  • Pink Elephant Now

    Updated: 2010-09-02 17:02:23

  • Liar’s Paradox

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:28:36

  • A Living Without Killing?

    Updated: 2010-09-02 16:13:30

  • Not a Reason to Abort

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:53:23

  • Dissuading Against Shark-fin Consumption

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:35:15

  • Harder to Forget

    Updated: 2010-09-02 15:09:58

  • Transformation by Power of Goodness

    Updated: 2010-09-02 14:56:10

  • Of Robots and Altars.

    Updated: 2010-08-29 17:08:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Sunday , August 29, 2010 Of Robots and . Altars We've been in the process of moving over this past month into our first house and the packing has dislodged all our possessions from their right place and thrown them into a mixed soup of items . As I was dutifully sorting and wrapping up our materialistic karma into the appropriate boxes , I noticed that during the churning maelstrom of the process that my toy , Robot B-9 from the 1960s , American , science-fiction , t.v . program , titled , Lost in Space had found its way to the altar . Anyway , at first glance my conditioned mind saw this clunky , garish , pop-culture refugee , toy as a blight on my otherwise serene , elegant and meticulously

  • Everything has Its Consequences

    Updated: 2010-08-24 17:55:58

  • New Unlimiting Mind Review

    Updated: 2010-08-24 17:45:05
    from Wandering Dhamma Many have read Andrew Olendzki’s work in popular Buddhist magazines Tricycle and Buddhadharma, and maybe even the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ publication called The Insight Journal. Many of these short essays have been collected in a new book from Wisdom Publications called Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism. With [...]

  • Are You a Buddhist, and Does it Matter?

    Updated: 2010-08-19 22:51:00
    : , skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Thursday , August 19, 2010 Are You a Buddhist , and Does it Matter I get questions from people from time to time about how they should become a Buddhist . This isn't a silly question because a lot of religions have a very intricate process one must go through before they can call themselves a member of that faith . Unless you're becoming a monk there isn't exactly the same process in Buddhism . Traditionally a practitioner became a monk after taking formal refuge in the Three Jewels The Buddha , the Dharma and the Sangha The idea of refuge is vital to understanding these . By coming to the monastery the novice was renouncing the failed appeasements of the world and embracing the shelter or refuge and

  • Myths About Meditation. Hint: It's Not Just for Buddhists.

    Updated: 2010-08-16 18:29:00
    : . : . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Monday , August 16, 2010 Myths About Meditation . Hint : It's Not Just for . Buddhists Who looks outside , dreams who looks inside , awakens Carl . Jung Meditation has brought life-changing benefits to millions of people world-wide . It is perhaps one of the original self-help programs as it helps calm the mind , stabilize emotions and motivate . Meditation is probably best known in Buddhism and the Hindu belief system but it can not be said that one must be a Buddhist or Hindu to benefit from it . That is one of the persisting myths about meditation , which is sad because it could be holding some non-Buddhists back from really benefiting from the discipline . This and many myths about meditation

  • Is Buddhism a Religion? Yes, and No. How's That for a Koan?

    Updated: 2010-08-06 17:42:00
    : , . skip to main skip to sidebar Search This Blog Loading . Buddhism in the News Loading . Friday , August 06, 2010 Is Buddhism a Religion Yes , and No . How's That for a Koan We often talk about Siddhartha , the young man who became known as the Buddha , as if he were a god . The fact is that he was just a simple Indian guy , a human being like you and me . We think of him as some kind of super-genius for having attained complete spiritual awakening , but in fact his real genius was in showing how any one of us can attain the same awakening as he did We describe him as a prince and a member of the elite royalty of his time , and we think that must have given him an advantage over us but the reality is that most of us today are probably better off , in material terms , than Siddhartha .

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