Frequent/Cherished Reads
- 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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Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara on Zen Life and Death
Zen is about life and death, and how to be with those things. To sit with someone who is suffering and to be able to offer some kind of mental way of being with that is a gift, a wonderful … Continue reading
The Metta Sutta – Upaya Zen Center
Wow. Thanks to the digitalZENDO for pointing this out, and to the Upaya Zen Center for sharing this.
Tagged Blog, compassion, loving-kindness, music, video
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"Relief for Victims of Typhoon Morakot: Over ten thousand Tzu Chi volunteers mobilize"
Please consider helping the Tzu Chi Foundation out. There’s an IReport at CNN about their help so far.
Critters (Long one, sorry!)
I was delighted to find Gabriel Cohen‘s article “Night of the Cockroach” on Shambhala Sun‘s website. It appeared in the July 2009 issue, but as magazines are a luxury purchase at the moment, I only stumbled upon it a few … Continue reading
Tagged animals, compassion, karma, loving-kindness, Practice, Sravasti Abbey, video
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Check Out Built on Respect:
Via Shambhala SunSpace, check out Built on Respect, started by Heidiminx:
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Molly Brown, over at Destination the Journey, today broached something that is a strong component of my practice. While you sit reading this, someone is giving birth, another is dying, another grieves the loss of a love one. Everything in … Continue reading
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Awakening
One of the deep honors of being a parent is the opportunity to be present when another human being reaches a new understanding of the world. Sometimes these moments are cotton candy sweet, happy affairs. Sometimes they’re not. In either … Continue reading
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The Sangha Metta Project
This film looks to be (as far as I can tell from the trailer) a really good look at the Sangha Metta Project of Southeast Asia, “which which engages monks in HIV/AIDS prevention and care.” To learn more about the … Continue reading
Tagged Activism, compassion, Love, loving-kindness, monks, video
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Pain, Experience, Growth, Compassion
In Coming to Our Senses, Jon Kabat-Zinn points out to us that the part of us that experiences pain is itself *not* in pain. This is true for both emotional and physical pain. Trying to find an awareness of this … Continue reading
Brother Karma Needs Help
With no money in their hands and little or no help coming from the state, family of 23-year old Karma Lama is finding it very difficult to save their young son. DIAGNOSED WITH Nephrotic Syndrome a year back, the condition … Continue reading
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