Sweep the dust, Push the dirt

Its Saturday, early morning and the Buddhists are talking about booze…. For those out there who have made comments about how “stale” and “overly traditional” Buddhism is in Asia, and how the “real” innovation is happening in North America and Europe, here’s an interesting story out of Japan about a monk running a bar to [...]

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  Oh. My. God. Were you aware of the latest trend in meditation?  Yes, I am talking about  EquiSync©®™ !  This thing is amazing!  I may be putting too fine a point on it but I do believe that this thing is better than sex…even better than group-sex or sex with Zenfant (sweet, sweet Zenfant!).  I mean [...]

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I don’t like clones or pod-people.  I don’t want to raise little pod-people.  And that is exactly what I would be doing if I ever tell my children that “We are Buddhists”.  It is just as bad as taking little Christian kids and telling them “We are Christians”.  Or non-believers.  We aren’t anything like that.  We (my wife [...]

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This weekend I visited two different Buddhist Temples. While they are both considered to be a part of the Mahayana Tradition of Buddhism They have very little else in common. A little back story is necessary to really understand why I ended at the Houston Zen center last Saturday. For some time I’ve been exploring [...]

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My practice is not rooted in a specific locale, tradition or culture.  Yet culture, tradition and locale supplements and heightens my practice.  My practice is eclectic, varied and free-range but at the same time the direction provided by traditional forms provides a necessary framework, structure and boundary. My foundation is firmly Buddhist concrete, my framework delightfully Japanese [...]

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Via the Buddhist Channel Tzu Chi USA headquarters immediately established an emergency coordination center to respond to the needs in Haiti. On January 13, meetings were held with Tzu Chi global headquarters, Tzu Chi USA’s regional directors throughout the nation, as well as other humanitarian organizations. Tzu Chi global headquarters has initiated a global fundraising [...]

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Kyle at The Reformed Buddhist already properly tore into this post by a conservative Christian’s view of Christianity and Buddhism but some highlights are needed since there was a legitimate question asked… I am a 19 year old evangelical Christian. My sister, who is 21, is a very liberal Catholic. The other day, we got into an [...]

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I like this idea coming from “365 Ways to Live Green“ Clothing is a process that starts with either renewable or nonrenewable feed stock (and underpaid slave labor), which his treated and woven, dyed and sewn to produce a piece of clothing.  The clothing may have started out as a fossil fuel, or a cotton plant, with [...]

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From National Geographic News The magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday is the strongest earthquake to hit the region in more than two centuries, geologists say. (See Haiti earthquake pictures.) While earthquakes are not uncommon in the Caribbean island country, the recent Haiti earthquake’s intensity surprised experts. “It’s quite strange” from a historical perspective, [...]

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