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Buddhist chant, Kathmandu, Nepal

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<em>Buddhist chant</em>, Kathmandu, Nepal <em>Buddhist chant</em>, Kathmandu, Nepal Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:29 AM PDT Buddhist chant, Kathmandu, Nepal flickr.com You are subscribed to email updates from BuddhaRocks ☸ Buddhist Chants To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610

Wat Doi Saket English-Teaching Volunteer Program

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Since my final post about a ways programs in Thailand for general visitors support ideas about Buddhist use as good as informative exchange, we have visited an additional site which deals with this tension in an interesting way. This is a brand new learn English proffer module during Wat Doi Saket, Chiangmai. In more aged with a alternative English-teacher proffer module during a temple, Wat Luang Por Sot, Wat Doi Sakets module is most newer as good as doesnt have as most of a imagining focus. This module just got up as good as running not long ago with a initial proffer completing a two-month stay. It is additionally not as vast as Wat Luang Por Sots module so which usually two volunteers would be needed during a single time. There have been opportunities for volunteers to learn during internal schools in a area of Doi Saket, as good as a novices during this wat. English-teaching programs during temples, as good as even a Monk for a Month module in Fang, require a vast number of novic

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/31/2010

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"Sometimes a single creates a energetic sense by saying something,and infrequently a single creates as significant an sense by remaining silent." ~His Holiness a Dalai Lama Technorati Tags: Buddha Buddhist Buddhism Meditation Dharma

Seeing

With palms together Good Morning Everyone, Right right divided we am sitting sensitively in a dim in my residence.1. we am looking out over a mesa to a mountains in a east. It is dim as good as a ambient light is not sufficient to explain anything. But there it is, in a dark, right in front of my eyes. Our star is itself beauty, any as good as each aspect is a phenomenon of a entirety: whole, alive, an quite conditional. As scientist-philosopher Brian Greene suggested, it is an Elegant Universe. Do we take any time at all to notice it? We look, though do we see? Sitting zazen in a park, we mostly look out at a trees, a iron fence, as good as a iron bench. In front of me, beyond a play ground boundary, there have been newly assembled southwestern style apartments. A stadium sits at a back of me. Blue sky is above me as good as grass underneath me. Do we unequivocally see these? How? What have been they? As we squint my eyes as artists infrequently do, we see less detail, though in a pla

Buddhist chant, Kamakura, Japan

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<em>Buddhist chant</em>, Kamakura, Japan <em>Buddhist chant</em>, Kamakura, Japan Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:54 AM PDT Buddhist chant, Kamakura, Japan flickr.com You are subscribed to email updates from BuddhaRocks ☸ Buddhist Chants To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610

Thoughts on Attachment (and Some Creative Writing Links)

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I did something else with the previous post about writing, which we competence see during the later time. But for now, I'd only similar to to offer the few comments as well as links to my new beautiful writing blog, as well as the post here about attachment. For those of we who have an interest, we have posted the following over during Creative Writing the Dharma: *a poem about second language learning *some haiku from my early days as the Zen student *an letter about medieval maps, the house painter Vermeer, imagination, as well as Europe. * as well as the short poetry poem. Now, let's take the demeanour during the small comments from Dean's current blog post upon The Mindful Moment. About his sixteen month aged son, he writes: The process of attachment, in saying him do this, is unequivocally utterly interesting. If we mark him before he makes his approach over to the TV remote as well as remove it before he arrives he's not as well upset. He'll only stand this

Fitness: 5 Things that Make Exercise Enjoyable

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By Mary Jaksch When we started a Fitness Challenge, we had no thought what a response might be. we was amazed when over 80 people assimilated a Challenge! It seems which there is a still revolution in progress: More as well as some-more people want to live a suggestive as well as wholesome life . There have been five lessons Ive schooled by participating in a Challenge this week: Lesson #1: Shared aspirations keep us upon track When people started to stick on a Challenge, we followed Leo Babautas recommendation as well as started a forum. The forum is a place where participants can share their tour as well as get support. Its inspiring! Teaming up with others creates removing fit as well as staying full of health a lot easier. Lesson #2: Make it fun Were most some-more expected to sustain full of health aptness day to day if we have practice a fun thing to do. Heres what Leo Babauta wrote in a forum: My idea is not to demeanour for exercise, but for a fun approach to get moving. So it

Reflections on Bankei's 'Song of the Mind' Verses 19-21

Having created The devil thoughts yourself When it torments you mercilessly You're to censure as well as no a single else When you do wrong Your mind's a demon There's no hell To be found outside Abominating hell Longing for heaven You have yourself suffer In a joyous world The summary of a seventeenth century Zen master Bankei Yotaku can be both direct as well as complicated in language. In a on top of three verses, you have ample evidence of both qualities, giving a difference an immediacy which grabs a hearts attention, pulling us behind into a benefaction moment, which is right where you need to be if you instruct to experience a Unborn Buddha Mind, a Wonder which Bankeis teachings consistently point to. Here, a master uses a age-old concepts of demons as well as ruin to illustrate a nature of a selfish mind, which is a true origin as well as location of a suffering. He pulls no punches laying a censure where it lies right from a outset: Having combined The devil though

Writing in the Internet Age

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Putting up a beautiful essay blog a alternative day desirous me to pull out all a work we have accomplished over a past 10 years. It's kind of extraordinary how much there is, even though there were periods where we didn't write anything for six months during a time. we have had very amiable success during removing things published. Maybe a dozen pieces, perhaps, have made it in to publication, often book reviews as good as essays, with a couple of poems tossed in for flavor. With a flourishing of a internet, as good as blogging in particular, we find a whole idea of edition has been thrown in to disarray. What does it meant when you can post a fool around up for anyone to read about Valley Girls as good as Buddhism 30 minutes after you accomplished essay it? It creates me consider about how fast any attempts during direct democracy have regularly slid in to something else, where a power to make decisions became in a few, instead of a many. we still join forces with being publi

鄭源-求佛

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鄭源-求佛 鄭源-求佛 Posted: 19 Jan 2009 06:03 PM PST 鄭源-求佛 From: t0929066899 Views: 30487 25 ratings Time: 05:31 More in People & Blogs You are subscribed to email updates from BuddhaRocks ☸ YouTube 视频 To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now . Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610

What's Mindfulness Got to Do, Got to Do With it?

A couple of days ago, Trevor had the post upon awareness we enjoyed. Mindfulness has become the single of those spiritual difference which has entered the renouned culture, been applied to almost anything, as well as right away is virtually meaningless. It's been really interesting to be studying the Anapanasati Sutra - awareness of breathing - underneath these circumstances. Trevor writes: I don't use mindfulness. That is, we don't use awareness in the way we often speak about it. One does the laundry or sweeps the floor, or answers the phone, or sorts the blog entry, as well as the single says, "I should do this mindfully." This gives we an additional thing to do, maybe even dual some-more things to do. First, there's the charge during hand, as well as afterwards there is the charge of bringing awareness to the task, as well as afterwards there is the little preferred state of "doing things mindfully," which - according to the little folks - means

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/29/2010

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"Attachment is a mind stuck to an object." ~Lama Zopa Rinpoche Technorati Tags: Buddha Buddhist Buddhism Meditation Dharma

Valley Girl Dharma

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Inspired by Daniel's comment about Valley Girls and Buddhist blogs, we decided to write the short, three act play. In box the little of we consider I'm regularly the thought, though critical guy, this piece of essay should blow the few holes in which theory. And since I'm not only the blogger, though also the prolonged time reader and bard of various forms of creative writing, we decided to start another blog. we do not know how often I'll update it, though we plan upon linking to it from Dangerous Harvests at your convenience we have brand new material. It's all set up for we to become the supporter as well, so feel free to stick on thew revolution, lol! Anyway, here's the play for your observation pleasure. Like, oh my God! Enjoy!

Eat Shit and Love Fully

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There seem to be the lot of posts not long ago about the messiness of life. you rarely validate this, as good as consider it should become the unchanging practice. Shiny, attractive posts filled with gorgeous chunks of wisdom have been all fine as good as well, though really, do not most of us have enough sweets in the residence already? A couple of nights ago, you watched an old Japanese movie about wealthy young adults revolting conflicting tradition in post-WWII Japan. Given all the destruction they had witnessed as children, maybe you'd consider they would have the deeper appreciation for life. But for most of the characters in this movie, the conflicting is true. They frequently explain dullness as the driving force during the back of their actions. They hold in "nothing" in particular, as good as spend their days drinking, screwing, H2O skiing, personification cards, as good as in all wasting their days away. Because nothing is unequivocally fulfilling, there have b

Early Morning Buddhist Inspiration - 10/28/2010

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"The most difficult times for most of us have been the ones you give ourselves." ~Pema Chodron Technorati Tags: Buddha Buddhist Buddhism Meditation Dharma