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- 108ZenBooks
- American Buddhist Perspective
- bookbird
- Cheerio Road
- Dangerous Harvests
- dhamma musings
- Digital Zendo
- Fly Like a Crow
- Full Contact Enlightenment
- Kloncke
- My Buddha is pink
- Notes in Samsara
- Ox Herding
- Point of Contact ~ Subtle Dharma Mouth Punch
- Precious Metal: the blog
- Rev. Danny Fisher
- Somewhere in Dhamma…
- Stumbling along the path
- The Big Old Oak Tree
- The Buddhist Blog
- The Endless Further
- The Jizo Chronicles
- the worst horse
- Wild Fox Zen
- Zen Traveler
- ZenDotStudio
- Zenju Earthlyn Marselean Manuel
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Tag Archives: Book
We are here we are here we are here…
And the elephant smiled. “Do you see what I mean?… They’ve proved they ARE persons, no matter how small. And their whole world was saved by the smallest of All!” I’m here, too. Not so sure there’s a “yopp” in … Continue reading
Tagged Book, Engaged Buddhism, Knowledge, Love, Real Life
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“What are you doing?”
I wanted to share with you a passage from I Have Arrived, I Am Home. It’s really struck a cord with me and deeply affected my daily practice. It’s from “Awakening My Mind of Love: Becoming a Monastic” written by … Continue reading
Staying Present
I found a quote I really liked in the book I’m reading right now: “…we often still find ourselves disengaged from our own clarity, moving along without thinking….” That’s exactly it – I really can grok this – for me … Continue reading
Hmm
Blargh. It’s been a long time since I blogged. Life has presented me with great challenges lately. An ailing parent. At least one child that may be heading for an Asperger’s diagnosis. The failing “secondary” economy in the area (we … Continue reading
Tagged Blog, Book, Dzigar Kongrul Rinpoche, James Ure, Kafka
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Ayya Khema
Via both The Buddhist Blog and lotusinthemud I found a really interesting quote from Venerable Khema. (Check out the links for the quote – figured repeating it a third time was a bit redundant. 0.O) I wasn’t familiar with the … Continue reading
Tagged Ayya Khema, Blog, Book, Dharma, dharma centers, nuns
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Random Pics from Date Night
The cat is away (well, in this case, the 3 kittens), so the mice have been at play – while the kiddos are with their grandparents this week, the other half and I have actually been getting in some grownup … Continue reading
Tagged Book, family, Humor, magazines
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Finished
About a week ago, I finally finished Thây Hanh’s The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching. This is a tremendously useful read – I really think that this is definitely one time that the book lives up to the title. When … Continue reading
Tagged Book, Buddhism, Dharma, Thich Nhat Hanh
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Chapter 25
So I’ve been taking my time with Chapter 25 of Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching, “The Twelve Links of Interdependent Co-Arising.” Dense stuff. I absolutely savour this book – it’s definitely one to read with great … Continue reading
Tagged Book, Co-Arising, Thich Nhat Hanh
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