One Moment Meditation - Video

One Moment Meditation - Video

One Moment Meditation - Video

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

Gladly I bumped into this video with its charming line drawings and gentle and rather good instructions. It is a skillful teaching to do with understanding that meditation is every moment. The instruction given in the video is to start with a purposeful one minute of meditation. Through practicing that you get to know what moment-to-moment meditations is. It is an interesting approach to making this point.

Hat tip to Mia for linking to this video.

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Dalai Lama to speak in California this April

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 08:00 AM PST

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will speak on the subject "Peace of Mind for Troubled Times" at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, April 21st, 2012. The event is sponsored by Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling in Long Beach. Tickets are now available through Ticketmaster or at the Long Beach Convention Center Box Office, 300 Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA, (562) 436-3661. For information about event sponsorship and general donation opportunities, email hhdl2012<at>gstdl.org. In addition, the official Facebook page for the event is here.

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(黃慧音) Imee Ooi - Repentance (Kinh Sám Hối) 忏悔文

Website: www.facebook.com rapidshare.com "All the wrong doings I've done in the past are caused by greed, rage and lack of wisdom. For all the consequences due to my actions, words and thoughts, I repent fully today." Repentance originates from Ksama in Sanskrit, and the Repentance Verses are chants used to confess one's errors and ask for tolerance and forgiveness. All the wrong-doings are the results of the greedy heart, the anguish heart, and the foolish and unreasonable heart, and they are caused by the actions of the body, the spoken words and the mind. If one could realize the origin of their sins and genuinely reflect within the self, through repentance, the sins could be purified. When Buddhist practitioners are engaged in introspection or when monks have broken the monastic codes, they would make public vows in front of the Buddha, the Goddess of Mercy - Guanyin, the elders or the general public, and promise that they would never make the same mistakes again; in order to clear their sins, the would sing the Repentance Verses. The Repent Method is an important method of cultivation in Buddhism. Repentance lessens the effects of our negative karma. The Buddha advises people to repent for all their unwholesome actions, speech and thoughts.

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Army dad ordered to remove Tibetan prayer flags from home

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 07:00 AM PST

Would your neighbors balk if you hung prayer flags outside your home?

By Danny Fisher

The Hudson Star Observer reports that the Lighthouse Villas Homeowners Association in Hudson, WI, has sent a letter ordering Don Chering to remove Tibetan prayer flags from the front of his home by the end of this month. Chering, a practicing Buddhist, is refusing to remove the flags, which he first hung on November 9th of last year, after his son Aaron left for basic training in the U.S. Army.

He says of his neighborhood, "We're a community, and they want to homogenize everybody. We live side-by-side as Christians and Buddhists. Outside are Christmas lights, prayer flags and an American flag. That's how we should be living in this country. That's what our founding fathers intended for us. We shouldn't be pushing each other around. We shouldn't be forcing our beliefs on other people. And we sure as heck shouldn't be stopping other people from practicing their beliefs respectfully — in a way that doesn't hurt anybody." Read the whole story here.

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Medicine Buddha Mantra 药师琉璃光如来心咒

Buddhist Dhamma Talk, Pali Chanting, Sanskrit Chanting & Song,MP3,Audio,Video free download Malaysia, Petaling Jaya Tibetan Han version Paritta mandarin English

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Government of Burma releases political prisoners, signs ceasefire with Karen National Union; Aung San Suu Kyi to run for office

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST

Almost immediately following the news that the government of Burma had signed a ceasefire with the Karen National Union — for many years, the two groups have been locked in bloody civil war over the issue of greater autonomy for the latter – the Democratic Voice of Burma reports that a number of political prisoners have been released from prison, including former prime minister Khin Nyunt and "Saffron
Revolution"-organizing monk U Gambira. Along with Nobel Peace laureate and National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's recent announcement that
she will run for office in the next parliamentary election, these seem like hopeful signs that meaningful transformation is taking place in a country that has long suffered gross human rights violations.

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Now online: Read Part 2 of “Ocean of Dharma,” on the life and legacy of Chögyam Trungpa

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 12:00 PM PST

In "Ocean of Dharma," found in our current, January 2012 magazine, Barry Boyce surveys the vast body of teachings — and their lasting impact — of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a seminal figure in twentieth-century of Buddhism (and, founder of the Shambhala Sun).

We've previously published Part 1 of the eight-part feature online; now Part 2, "The Charnel Ground," is available for you to read too. Just click here. And then see the magazine for parts 3-8, as well as some classic photos by Robert Del Tredici (who shot the one you see here), and others.

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