Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday night
Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday night |
- Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday night
- Mt. Baldy Zen Center announces remodel, asks for donations
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- Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday
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- Two Streams Zen: AnRyuJi, a new Zen center, opens in Westhampton, Massachusetts
| Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday night Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:00 AM PDT
Filmed over 20 years, Jennifer Fox's documentary follows Namkhai Norbu's long teaching career and his relationship with his Italian-born son Yeshi. Namkhai Norbu and his followers believe Yeshi is the reincarnation of Namkhai Norbu's own master and expect him to follow in his father's footsteps. Yeshi, though, wants to live a normal Western life in Italy. Click through to watch a trailer for the film.
My Reincarnation will be shown on PBS' POV on Thursday, June 21, at 10 p.m. Check here for local TV listings. Also, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is touring the United States for a series of teachings and retreats this summer; click here for his schedule. Read More @ Source
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| Mt. Baldy Zen Center announces remodel, asks for donations Posted: 19 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT  Photo: linsuhill via Flickr, CC-BY license Mt. Baldy Zen Center, the remote Rinzai Zen training center founded by the centenarian Joshu Sasaki roshi in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest region, would like to remodel their zendo and are asking for donations. In a blog post on the center's website on June 6, they put out the following request: "Please help us preserve the zendo as a tribute to all that Roshi has done, and continues to do, for his thousands of monks, nuns and students worldwide. If you're not a student of Roshi's, please think of this as a tribute to the remarkable place that MBZC has been, and will continue to be, each and every time you come. To turn this vision into reality, we need your help." You can read the full post here, which explains in greater detail the need for a new facility. Read More @ Source Vajra Guru 
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| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:01 AM PDT  Nine Standards Rigg
Congratulating myself on this evening expedition a woman I know strode up towards me. I HAVE to run down she said not even breathless, So I will pass you. Bye! There is always the opportunity to compare oneself (unfavorably) with somebody else. But it's not necessary to take up the opportunity! Read More @ SourceTibetan monks making sand mandala 
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:00 PM PDT Enjoy some Tibetan Hip Hop music Learn more about these performers as well as get all the song lyrics at this post "New Generation" – Hip Hop Music Video from Amdo on High Peaks Pure Earth.  Read More @ Source Tibetan Tantric Overtone Chant 
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| Video: Watch “My Reincarnation” on PBS Thursday Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT Filmed over 20 years, Jennifer Fox's documentary follows Namkhai Norbu's long teaching career, and his relationship with his Italian-born son Yeshi. Namkhai Norbu and his followers believe Yeshi is the reincarnation of Namkhai Norbu's own master, and expect him to follow in his father's footsteps. Yeshi, though, wants to live a normal Western life in Italy. Click through to watch a trailer for the film. My Reincarnation will be shown on PBS' POV on Thursday, June 21, at 10 p.m. Check here for local TV listings. Also, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is touring the United States for a series of teachings and retreats this summer; click here for his schedule. Read More @ Source
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| Posted: 18 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT Shambhala SunSpace blogger Jill S. Schneiderman noticed an interesting article in the New York Times yesterday. And she wasn't the only one; James Atlas' "Buddhists' Delight" is currently the most-emailed story on the Times site. (And interestingly enough, the Washington Post published an American-Buddhism piece yesterday, too.) Here Schneiderman responds to Atlas's piece.  Tengboche Buddhist monastery, Nepal (via Creative Commons) Yesterday I read "Buddhists' Delight," an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Times by James Atlas, a long-time literary journalist who has written for the New Yorker and published a biography of Saul Bellow. In the piece Atlas describes four days he spent at a Buddhist meditation center "in retreat, from a frenetic Manhattan life." It's obvious from the essay that Atlas brought "beginner's mind" to the retreat and his report of this first encounter with Buddhist meditation is pretty insightful. Atlas' piece is a good introduction to the experience and I intend to give it to friends who are contemplating the possibility of sitting a multi-day retreat. Nonetheless, as experienced meditators know, there's more to meditation than beginners may realize. So although it's a bit outside my usual bailiwick of earth science and dharma, I wanted to add to Atlas' observations from my position as a professional educator who is convinced that the practice of meditation is not only powerful but crucial to the rehabilitation of a society and planet in critically ill condition. Atlas recognizes that meditation is an important tool for individuals trying to cope with the insane state of our world; he even notes the heft of Engaged Buddhism. While sitting this morning I heard the carillon ring the early morning hour and I felt grateful, as I always do, to the monastic traditions that created the institution of the Monastery, the precursor to the modern University. Though most universities today have lost the spiritual dimension that once accompanied the educational mission of the Monastery, as an educator today, I aspire to reclaim the spiritual as a legitimate dimension of higher education. As a regular practitioner and frequent retreatant at the Garrison Institute, I have experienced the transformational power of meditation that Atlas reports having sensed while he was on retreat in Vermont. Though as a beginner in the practice he may not realize it, Atlas has tapped into what multitudes of more experienced meditators know: meditation transforms minds and lives. In "The University" a chapter in his book The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future, Ecotheologian Thomas Berry admonishes readers that universities should "reorient the human community toward a greater awareness that the human exists, survives, and becomes whole only within the single great community of the planet Earth. " The bells ringing in the carillon of the Vassar College Chapel every hour remind me of this; the bells validate my impulse to teach meditation as a tool for societal rehabilitation. Read More @ Source Heart Sutra (Music by Imee Ooi) - Lyrics Sanskrit and English 
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| Two Streams Zen: AnRyuJi, a new Zen center, opens in Westhampton, Massachusetts Posted: 18 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT  Photo: twostreamszen.org Ryumon H.G. Baldoquin semei and Catherine Araku Hondorp sensei have opened their second Zen temple in their home of Westhampton, Massachusetts — their first location, known as ShinJin Temple, is in nearby Northampton. AnRyuJi opened its doors earlier this month at 263 Main Road. Combined, the community of the two centers is being called Two Streams Zen. The new location, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, "includes a Zen garden surrounded by woods divided by a small artificial stream, now offers regular meditation classes and occasional Zen multi-day retreats." Hondorp (a dharma successor of Pat Enkyo O'Hara roshi) serves as the Guiding Teacher of ShinJin Temple, and Baldoquin (a dharma successor of Zenkei Blanche Hartman) serves as Guiding Teacher of AnRyuJi. Read More @ Source 
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