Category: Buddhism

What’s UUp?

Unitarian Universalism is stagnating while Buddhism is growing rapidly in the West.

Dead. I Dare You to Say It.

Maybe, as the world has become more technologically advanced and dying has become more sterile, we fear it more.

A Musical Bonus from the Heart

I decided to post a short musical bonus for the followers of my blog, and I chose this, a version of the famous mantra that ends the Heart Sutra

Of Blizzards and Email

If you have been reading Melting-Pot Dharma long enough, you know that I’m about to make a connection between blizzards and email and tie it all in to spiritual wholeness.

Insufferable Suffering

With the word “suffering” at their heart, the Four Noble Truths sound to many of us like nonsense.

Let It Be – Part 2

I sat in one of those plastic DMV chairs, closed my eyes and began to meditate. The trembling and twitching stopped. I wasn’t happy, but I was beginning to let it go and return to the present moment.

Please Call Me by My True Names

…even in his despair, he recognized that being one with everything means indeed being one with everything, even the sea pirate whose heart was “not yet capable of seeing and loving.”

Gratitude and Happiness

Originally posted on Peace Paul's Blog:
The first noble truth of Buddhism, which is often translated simply as suffering, actually has a richer meaning. It conveys a sense of bitterness, of unsatisfactoriness, of incompleteness. The Buddha was realistic. He did not deny the existence of happiness in our daily lives. Life is filled with…

Barely seen – #photopoetry

I just came across this beautiful and meaningful photo and short poem by Stephanie Mohan, three days after I posted My New Tattoo, which describes the symbolism of the lotus A lotus to the Buddha in you, Stephanie.