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Practicing Buddhist meditation IS serious stuff, but on the other hand...
Yeah, if you're doing 座禅 and you're feeling bad experiences, do seek counseling, and do cultivate your practice with people that know what they're doing. And corporations shouldn't really be involved in this, has has been said so manhy times. On the other...
Yeah, if you're doing 座禅 and you're feeling bad experiences, do seek counseling, and do cultivate your practice with people that know what they're doing. And corporations shouldn't really be involved in this, has has been said so manhy times. On the other...
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Light in the strangest of places...
In our relatively local news there's a story about some folks affiliated with the Dharma Rain Center who are doing a prison ministry at Pendleton, OR, teaching inmates how to mediate. I think it's good that people teach people how to do meditation from a ...
In our relatively local news there's a story about some folks affiliated with the Dharma Rain Center who are doing a prison ministry at Pendleton, OR, teaching inmates how to mediate. I think it's good that people teach people how to do meditation from a ...
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He's sort of got a point...
Read about Brad Warner's regrets...we all have them . In my own life, right at this very second, I have a handful of regrets. In two cases that come to mind as I write this, I did something wrong to someone and later apologized and made efforts to right t...
Read about Brad Warner's regrets...we all have them . In my own life, right at this very second, I have a handful of regrets. In two cases that come to mind as I write this, I did something wrong to someone and later apologized and made efforts to right t...
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These folks are, um, people with severe problems...
I just came across this bit on that Integral place, based on my wondering "What ever happened to Andrew Cohen?" Now you should know that I asked the question because I truly didn't know. We go through the internet in phases. Andrew Cohen was about 2 phase...
I just came across this bit on that Integral place, based on my wondering "What ever happened to Andrew Cohen?" Now you should know that I asked the question because I truly didn't know. We go through the internet in phases. Andrew Cohen was about 2 phase...
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There's historical context for this...
Here's the only version I've been able to find of Ha Kirishitan (破切支丹, "Crush Christianity"), written in 1642 by Suzuki Shōsan (鈴木正三), which was written during the time when the proselytizing of Christianity created problems for Japan. I'd like to be able ...
Here's the only version I've been able to find of Ha Kirishitan (破切支丹, "Crush Christianity"), written in 1642 by Suzuki Shōsan (鈴木正三), which was written during the time when the proselytizing of Christianity created problems for Japan. I'd like to be able ...
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行雲流水, Clouds, Water, movement, flow and culture...
行雲流水、in Japanese represented as " こううんりゅうすい" has the characters for "going" or "moving", "clouds," "flow" and water, read from up to down with the right column first. More or less literally meaning "clouds move, water flows" it's taken as idiomatic as "go...
行雲流水、in Japanese represented as " こううんりゅうすい" has the characters for "going" or "moving", "clouds," "flow" and water, read from up to down with the right column first. More or less literally meaning "clouds move, water flows" it's taken as idiomatic as "go...
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Yes, Falun Da Fa is a Dangerous Cult. We shouldn't refrain from using those words.
In the past few days, two ideas have come to me that merit blogposts in this all too infrequently updated Buddhist blog. The first concerns the " Adverse Childhood Experiences " (ACE) studies I only now read about. I have to write a significant post on t...
In the past few days, two ideas have come to me that merit blogposts in this all too infrequently updated Buddhist blog. The first concerns the " Adverse Childhood Experiences " (ACE) studies I only now read about. I have to write a significant post on t...
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