Monday, December 26, 2016

The Buddha Taught Rahula: "This is Not Mine, This is Not I, This is Not Myself."

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Life has a way of swooping in with heat, and drying out the noise that flies from your mouth. Since I left Minnesota, and my home sangha, my...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Ups and Downs of the Holiday Season

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Today's article is a guest post from Gregg Krech. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to take a weekend workshop with Gregg on Naik...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Letting Your Opinions Fly Like Birds

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We humans tend to cherish our opinions. Sometimes, we'll do anything to either protect them or make them known in the world. It can get...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Buddhist Tensions: the Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong

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Picking Flowers If you want to pick flowers, you have to hike. Climbing up, don't worry about your weary bones. Pluck the low branch...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Study the Whole Self, Not the Marketed Self

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Marketing of the self. Aren't we taught to do that pretty early on in life? You gotta stand out or you'll be forgotten, right? You b...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Green Zen

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Today's post comes from my herbal medicine blog at NGTHerbals. Here is an excerpt. Sometime in the middle of the 8th century, a Zen h...
Friday, June 19, 2015

On Charleston, Terrorism, and the Future of America

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Nothing short of an extended, ritual purification and reconciliation will do at this point. Removing and burning Confederate flags is only a...