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Recently Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, made a speech that, translated into English, seemed to insult Christians by calling them "self-righteous," contrasted with the more "magnanimou (Read More)
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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 (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. Th (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 (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 blo (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, fir (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 lat (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, (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 superfi (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 (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 a (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?" However, most of the responses are well informed, I thought. I especi (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.Th (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. Nel (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 Cholin (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 j (Read More)
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"Meet a doctor who thinks you can better understand the self by destroying it"After the confusion about 'annihilating the self' is cleared up this is a very interesting story.Can Buddhism and Psychology Co-Exist?Thank you fro (Read More)
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Ha! Thanks for that last post Shonin Justin. I just came across the same over at the Tricycle blog. I posted some comments there and then over at my blog, but figured it's good grist for the Progressive Buddhism mill as well (Read More)
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A post by NellaLou at the blog Enlightenment Ward has an imposing title -- "FLM: Dr. Feel-good and the Medicalization of Buddhism (with bonus book review of How to Become a Buddha in 5 Weeks-ouch)." But it's a serious, insigh (Read More)
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