Thank you, Stephanie. This is the dharma.
Category: Buddhism
The Buddha and His Frenemy
That may have been good life counseling for Mara, but it is also a story with a point about non-duality. Flowers and vegetables make garbage, and garbage makes flowers and vegetables.
The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc. – The New York Times
As the practice of mindfulness is packaged and peddled, it’s hard not to wonder if something essential is being lost. Source: The Hidden Price of Mindfulness Inc. – The New York Times
News Flash! The World Is Real!
You and I are one. But if we are one, who is doing the writing and who is doing the reading?
Emptiness and Boundlessness
Co-meditation brings you together and overcomes your selfness. I found success with this technique once in a dining hall during a silent retreat.
The Tree
Wind, rain, ice, and snow have pushed and pulled at its branches, but it is wise enough to bend just enough to let the elements be what they need to be, so the tree can continue to carry out its role in the cycle of life, death and rebirth.
A Glimpse of Pureland Buddhism
Pureland Buddhism is fundamentally a form of lay Buddhism. It is practiced by people with families and jobs and the many difficulties of life in the world.
Saved by the Spirit
By some ironic linguistic mutation, we call “progressives” those who want to return to the spirit of the great teachers and “fundamentalists” those who have forgotten what religion means.
Wondering About Karma
If I can live on in bliss by doing good, that’s acceptable to me. I’ll take it.
Jazz giants (and Buddhists) Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter urge artists toward compassion – Lion’s Roar
“We do not exist alone and we cannot create alone. What this world needs is a humanistic awakening of the desire to raise one’s life condition to a place where our actions are rooted in altruism and compassion.”
Who’s the Boss? You or Your Ideas?
When we see no daylight between ourselves and our opinions and positions, we become dangerous to ourselves and others, to the fabric of our interdependent web of existence.
ReligUUsity — Sermon March 6, 2016
We don’t need to shave our heads, sit in the half-lotus position and wear robes to be appealing to more folks, but we do need to open up about our belief systems – the being as well as the doing – and we need to be more genuinely inclusive.
Melting-Pot Dharma 