Religious leaders call on higher power against nuclear reactor restart
Religious leaders call on higher power against nuclear reactor restart |
- Religious leaders call on higher power against nuclear reactor restart
- Arizona spiritual community death becomes national news
- Dalai Lama giving introductory Buddhist teachings via webcast
- World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference coming up June 11 to 16
- Video: Check out the new trailer for “Saltwater Buddha”
- Fields Of Merit
- Going To Be All Right
- Melody, meditation, and inspiration
| Religious leaders call on higher power against nuclear reactor restart Posted: 06 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT By RIE YAMADA, Asahi Shimbun, June 6, 2012FUKUI, Japan -- Religious leaders from Buddhist, Christianity and other faiths are calling on a higher authority as they join the campaign against the restart of two idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant, operated by Kansai Electric Power Co.
They submitted a petition to Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa asking him not to agree to the restart, which the Noda administration is pushing for before midsummer. On May 30, about 100 members from the Interfaith Forum for Review of National Nuclear Policy gathered in the prefectural government office in Fukui. "We want to think together about how to create a prefecture that does not depend on nuclear power," said Buddhist monk Tetsuen Nakajima, who is serving as the chief priest of Myotsuji temple in Obama, Fukui Prefecture. Mikio Iwanaga, a Fukui prefectural government official who accepted the petition, said, "We want to ask the central government to ensure safety at nuclear power plants."
They also demanded that the Fukui prefectural government share some of the hardships resulting from the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and awaken to the "stupidity" of the operation of nuclear reactors, which is conducted even knowing that residents and workers will be exposed to radiation. One of the 100 religious leaders was Tokuun Tanaka, 37, a priest at Dokeiji temple in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, who evacuated to Sakai in Fukui Prefecture after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011. Tanaka evacuated to Fukui Prefecture along with his wife and four young children as he had previously received his ascetic training in Eiheiji temple in Eiheiji, also in Fukui Prefecture. Since coming to Fukui Prefecture, he has often returned to Fukushima Prefecture where many of his Dokeiji temple's parishioners are still residing. He has talked with them and asked what difficulties they are facing. "Some towns in Fukushima Prefecture may have become rich thanks to the nuclear power plants there. But many people there are now regretting that. They are lamenting that an irrevocable situation has taken place," Tanaka said. When he evacuated to Fukui Prefecture, he had concerns as the prefecture is home to the largest number of nuclear reactors in Japan. "In Fukushima Prefecture, we were pretending to believe the safety myth (of nuclear power plants). We were lulled to sleep. But we were awakened forcibly. Fukui (Prefecture) is still sleeping. It should take a step forward before the suffering like the one in Fukushima occurs," Tanaka said. Read More @ SourceRemembering the Masters 
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| Arizona spiritual community death becomes national news Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT  (Photo by Diamond Mountain via Flickr using a CC-BY license.) An April death at Diamond Mountain Retreat Center in Bowie, Arizona has become national news. Thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson was found dead in a nearby cave with an elevation of 6,000 feet, the victim of apparent dehydration. Thorson was the husband of Lama Christie McNally, a former partner of the controversial Diamond Mountain spiritual leader Geshe Michael Roach, and co-leader of his community. McNally, too, was suffering from dehydration when authorities found her. Read more in this article by Fernanda Santos in the New York Times. Read More @ SourceMy Reincarnation - Festival Trailer 
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| Dalai Lama giving introductory Buddhist teachings via webcast Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT  Photo by Tenzin Choejor (OHHDL) His Holiness the Dalai Lama, at the request of Indian Buddhist practitioners in Dharamsala, will deliver a series of introductory Buddhist teachings via live webcast on June 7, 8 and 9. The teachings, to be delivered in Tibetan, will be available with English translation on his Holiness' website. Click through to see the schedule, taken from His Holiness' website.
The English webcast is available here. For reference, 9:30 a.m. IST on June 7 in Dharamsala is the same as 9:00 p.m. PDT on June 6 in Los Angeles, California, and 5:00 a.m. BST on June 7 in London, England. Read More @ SourceTokyo (Part 1) 
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| World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference coming up June 11 to 16 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT
Ven. Hyegyeong, Director of Social Affairs, said, "The reason for coinciding the conference with the expo and the Lotus Lantern Festival is that it would be a good way to show the world the beauty and richness of Korean Buddhist tradition and to promote Korean Buddhist. We will have a tentative six-day visit plan with half the time spent in Yeosu City and the conference, and the other days to see the Lotus Lantern Festival." Below is the promotional video for the conference (in Korean): Read More @ Source
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| Video: Check out the new trailer for “Saltwater Buddha” Posted: 06 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT
Directed by Lara Popyack, the film follows Jaimal's journeys after he dropped out of high school and traveled to Hawaii to learn how to surf. Since then, his travels have taken him to surfing spots around the world, but also to monasteries in France and California as he dove deeper into Zen Buddhist. A portion of the film's profits will be donated to environmental organizations that share Jaimal's passion for caring for the earth. Click through to watch the new trailer. Jaimal has contributed to the Shambhala Sun numerous times — to read some of his pieces, including an excerpt from Saltwater Buddha, check out these links. Read More @ Source 
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For a dear friend as she walks into her future... Read More @ SourceLama Lobsang | Healing Sound and Medicine Buddha 
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| Posted: 05 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT
From Warpandwoofknitting And the original post - Everything is going to be alright. Happy knitting and spinning and blogging to all at Warp and Woof Knitting. Read More @ Source
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| Melody, meditation, and inspiration Posted: 05 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT  Palmer as the eight-foot bride in a YouTube clip from 2006. Star quality: some people just have it, and it's irrefutable. For example, take the Artist Formerly Known as the Eight-Foot Bride. Though she was ostensibly spoken-for, in reality the Bride was a street performer who stood on a box, perfectly still, and in her stillness somehow conveyed to me a whole world of beauty. While the busker-as-statue can be found in just about any city these days, back in the late 90s, the Bride seemed to me one of a kind. When she broke her stillness to offer a flower to a much younger, completely rapt Yours Truly, I nearly wept. I thought I was in love. Only later did I learn that the Bride had been played by Amanda Palmer, who has of course grown into a fully-fledged artist/musician by way of her work with the "punk cabaret" act Dresden Dolls, and her subsequent solo work. Palmer now has an army of fans, it turns out — many more, it turns out, than even she might have guessed. Palmer — and her fans — has been in the news a lot in the past couple of weeks. The singer/musician tried to raise Kickstarted donations for a tour; $ 100,000, to be exact. Instead, she raised a million. Now, that's star quality. She has also been the subject of ongoing speculation, much of it quite negative, due to accusations that she and her husband, the novelist and children's author Neil Gaiman, are involved with the Church of Scientology. Whether this involvement is something real isn't easily sorted out; what's known is that Gaiman once had family ties to the Church. (This Village Voice blogpost from last month contains Palmer's more-or-less-NSFW response to those who claim her million dollars was in fact meant for the Church of Scientology all along.) One thing we can tell you for sure is that Palmer has shown real interest in Buddhist meditation, attending a retreat at Insight Meditation Society, and finding that sitting practice was beneficial to her art. She even wrote about it in "Melody vs, Meditation," an original Shambhala Sun article proposed by our Editor in Chief Melvin McLeod after he caught a limited-engagement Dolls show in Cambridge a few years back. Quoth Palmer, from "Melody vs. Meditation": "The problem with meditation, I thought, is that it unlocks the door to inspiration, and the problem with me is that I am in love with my own inspiration." She's not the only one — I saw that Dolls show too, and still proudly rock the shirt I bought there, long after my crush had passed and I'd found a much more suitable, real-world bride of my own. And then, a donated million dollars' worth of fans can't be wrong… Click here to read Melody vs. Meditation. Read More @ SourceTulku Lama Lobsang on Tog Chöd- the Wisdom Sword 
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