There are a number of popular conceits about Buddhism in Brendan O'Neill's article "The Truth About Tibetan Buddhism" at Reason. For example, the article reflects the common notion that westerners who "take up" Buddhism are privileged dilettantes who don't practice seriously. Buddhism to westerners, O'Neill says, "is something you can ingest while sipping on a skinny-milk, no-cream, hazelnut latte." Western Buddhists are "hippyish, celebrity, and middle-class followers."
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I was feeling particularily elated and happy, as i was riding my bike. I thought about how this is a aggreeable feeling for me (and would pass at some point) and thought i should be mindful of this and just be the feeling . i began to watch my breath and instantly i returned to a differant thing i was again centered i was again mindful. This experience helped me to realise that this elation was just the same as any other emotion except it was aggreeable to me, it was a prefered emotive state. I then realised that if i was to loose this state i would not be so happy about that. But once i am mindful there is nothing to shake this. nothing to pass nothing to be concerned about.
just a thought.
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Posted by Philip Ryan in : Books , Tibetan Buddhism , Tricycle , Tricycle Retreats , Vipassana , trackback It's a busy day here at Tricycle! Here's what's new this Monday: Bonnie Myotai Treace's Tricycle Retreat, " Whole Life Offering ," heads into its fourth and final week with the teaching, "Just One Small Bowl: The Boundless Body ." You can ...
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May I respectfully suggest that The Nation reconsider using "Buddhist Lent" as a translation of pansa? "Lent" is a Christian term designating the forty days preceding Jesus' resurrection.
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A monk looks at the thangka during the annual thangka unfurling ceremony at Ganden Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, July 25, 2010.
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for many days.
The wells
in most eyes look
Drought-stricken.
Thus friends are not
easy to find
In this barren
Place
Where most everyone
has become ill
From guarding
Nothing.
On this primal caravan
Careers and cities
can appear real in this
Intense Desert heat,
But I say to my close ones,
"Don't get lost in them,
It has not rained light
there for days.
Look,
most everyone is diseased
From 'making love'
to
Nothing."
~ Hafiz
(free rendering by D. Ladinsky)
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I want to explore Zen Buddhism and I found a near by Zen Center I want to go to, I am 14 and i was hoping someone can give [...] Continue Reading…
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what are the obvious differences in the way these 2 Buddhist schools practice?
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i am really intrigued by zen buddhism and wondered what it takes to become one? what do you have to follow, just your meditation? if anyone knows any books [...] Continue Reading…
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If there was just one teaching from Buddhism you wish the world would take to heart, what would it be? I started thinking about this after I wached a video of Pema Chodron talking about how we respond to aggression. It make me think of the lines from the Dhammapada --
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