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I finally worked up the nerve to write an introduction to the Heart Sutra -- a very brief, beginner-level introduction. I recall that I had committed the sutra to memory before anyone explained any part of it to me. I hate to think how long it took for me to figure out who that guy "Shariputra" was.The Heart Sutra is part o (Read More)
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My wife (who has a sensitive and anxious disposition) desperately wants her first child. She is in her mid-30s now. In the course of the last year she has miscarried three times and three times I have seen her heart break. There is no instruction manual given out for how best to support someone going through something like (Read More)
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A few days ago some photos popped up on the Web that allegedly shows Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka attacking a Christian church. I can't tell what they're doing from the photos, but eyewitness accounts say that protesters threw stones and petroleum bombs at the church after two women died at an evangelical faith healing servi (Read More)
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At Tricycle, Zenshin Michael Haederle writes about online bickering among Buddhists. In particular, there have been a few online flame wars that involved Buddhist teachers. For example, a couple of Zen teachers used their blogs to challenge each others' teaching credentials. Sad.Anyone who has ever participated in online di (Read More)
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Twice this month, critics of Shi Yongxin, the abbot of China's fabled Shaolin Temple, have hacked the temple's website. The critics accuse the abbot of running a commercial enterprise instead of a Buddhist temple.Shaolin, first built in the 5th century CE, is thought to be the birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu as well as Ch'an (Read More)
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Charles Prebish has a great commentary in the latest issue of BuddhaDharma, discussing his observations of American Buddhism over the past 30 years. The main theme of the commentary is that we've come a long way since the late '70s and things are generally looking very good.He speaks about our growing connections here in th (Read More)
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I'll be on retreat until Sunday night. In the meantime, please check out the Buddhism forum!Also, check out "Cultivating Her Faith" by Zen T.C. Zheng in the Houston Chronicle. It's a profile of the Rev. Myokei Caine-Barrett, the first woman Nichiren Shu priest in North America.I'm Off to Sesshin originally appeared on About (Read More)
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Every now and then I trip over an article about Buddhism in which someone says he or she "tried" Buddhism and rejected it. Almost inevitably the article reveals that the writer's understanding of Buddhism is laughably superficial.I found a good example of the "rejection of Buddhism" genre today. The author, whose name is Ja (Read More)
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The Irish Medical Times reports that Professor Billy O'Connor, a neuroscientist, is the new Professor of Physiology at the new Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) at the University of Limerick. The article about Professor O'Connor reports that "experiments on Tibetan Buddhist monks have shown a correlation between transc (Read More)
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At Shambhala Sun, Karen Maezen Miller has some great advice for finding a teacher. Here are some highlights: "Teachers can be charming, entertaining and provocative, but if you choose based on anything other than the vigor and authenticity of their practice, you will surely be misled."Most of us seek out teachers because w (Read More)
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I cringed a bit when I stumbled onto a religion forum discussing the proposition "Buddhism is compatible with any other religious belief: Why or why not?"Â However, most of the responses are well informed, I thought. I especially liked this response (and the LOLcat signature line).Several of the commenters emphasize the rol (Read More)
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People standing outside Buddhism and looking in often comment that for an allegedly nontheistic religion it has a lot of gods. Which I suppose is true, but Buddhist "gods" aren't gods as most Westerners understand the word.There's a book review in the Sri Lanka Sunday Times that discusses the distinction from a Theravadin p (Read More)
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Earlier this week I wrote about a great post at the blog Enlightenment Ward, making the point that Buddhism is not psychology. I want to look at another point in the post today, about mixing Buddhism with other religions. NellaLou writes,Buddhism is a side-dish to one's main religious practice. There are a growing number o (Read More)
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An 11-year-old Boston schoolboy, Jigme Wangchuk, was enthroned today as His Holiness the Second Gyalwa Lorepa Lama of the Drukpa lineage. As near as I can tell, this enthronement took place at the Druk Thupten Sangag Choling Monastery in Darjeeling, India, but I'm not going to swear to it. I'm having a terrible time getti (Read More)
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Through the ages many Buddhist teachers have thought up new and improved ways to realize dharma. Some of these ways were passed on, becoming new traditions that helped many people. So I don't want to put down a new approach just because it's new.On the other hand, when someone is advertising a "fast track" approach to spiri (Read More)
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