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Archive for March, 2009

The Tragic Story of Sesshin

Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From May 8th to May 10th, the Laughing Teabowl Zendo in conjunction with the Great Mountain Zen Center (Lafayette, Colorado) will be holding a spring sesshin. Roshi Gerry Wick and Sensei Shinko Perez of the Great Mountain Zen Center will be coordinating this event. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go. The fee of $100 [...]

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Hardcore Zen and Sex

Posted in ramblings, zen on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

That is perhaps one of the best titles in existence. I wish I could take credit for it but it was mentioned in this article here by Violet Blue interviewing Brad Warner (Zen Master and writer). Personally, I enjoy the fact that he writes an occasional article for Suicide Girls which is basically a soft-core [...]

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Time and Practice or the Zen of a Crying Child

Posted in ramblings, zen on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have been wanting to talk about time and practice. I have been finding it more and more difficult to find any time in the day to sit in zazen or to even get to the zendo every week (I usually get there on Sundays for an hour and a half). So what to do [...]

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Women, Buddhism and non-religion

Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Great article by Brad Warner on women and religion. To start off with, I was never a fan of Brad Warner. That is until recently. I tend to dislike when people add “Zen” to everything that they could possibly imagine (ie. Zen and Marketing, the Zen of Selling) and I sort of lumped Brad into [...]

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Article Pulled from "New Scientist"

Posted in Evolution on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This Article got pulled from New Scientist’s online edition. Good reading…I enjoyed it. How to spot a hidden religious agendaAmanda Gefter New Scientist Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:35 UTC As a book reviews editor at New Scientist, I often come across so-called science books which after a few pages reveal themselves to be harbouring ulterior [...]

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He DOES, you know

Posted in The seedy kingdom of geek, cthulhu, ramblings on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yes! Our Great Lord does have a huge dislike for the Phylum Chordata. Gotta be careful these days less his great tentacled wrath comes down upon you…he has an annoying tendency to rip sanity straight from your soul. …one doesn’t usually find cultists so attractive to spread his word. Ai Ai Cthulhu Ph’Tagen! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh [...]

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God Trumps the Buddhists

Posted in funny, zen on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

These are awesomely hilarious. I think they should be expounded upon to include some of the wackier sects. The daffiest doctrine portion is very apt. You have to reread some of the obscure stuff over and over and it still doesn’t make any sense.

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Soto and Rinzai Zen Part 1

Posted in ramblings, zen on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A Brief Explanation of Rinzai and Soto Zen Part 1 or… “Why sometimes Zen Practitioners can be assholes”**. I think some explanation of the history and practice of these two often confused and intertwined traditions in needed. Especially here in the West where the Zen we are exposed to tends to be a combination of [...]

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108 Day Zen Sitting Challenge

Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I suppose saying that this is a “Zen” challenge would be inaccurate. The goal is to get people to attempt to meditate daily for 108 days and judge the results for yourself. Read the following and if interested go to the website. Your 108 Day Meditation Journey Begins TomorrowMarch 1, 2009 To begin visit the [...]

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