New post from yours truly over at Elephant Journal concerning the fact that Bill Maher needs to be either funny or factual when he rants on shit. In this case he fell far short on both accounts and probably should hire a new crack team of douchebags. That being said, “Religilous” was a medicore movie [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Bill Maher versus Buddhism versus MEEEEEE!
Posted in Buddha, Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, current events, Elephant Journal, funny, huffington post on February 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Updates and Info:Chile Earthquake & Hawaii Tsunami Warnings
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
After the tragedies in Haiti and Mongolia, I would hope that samsara would take a break from rolling on to the next event but alas it doesn’t slow down for us. All we can do is remain aware, compassionate and generous to those that are suffering.
Updates are available from HuffPo and CNN
Early Saturday morning a devastating [...]
Twitter Goes to Dalai Lama’s Head!
Posted in Buddha, Buddhism, Uncategorized, tagged Elephant Journal, funny on February 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By the grace of the Lord Buddha himself, I am honored with another post over at the ephemeral and mindful Elephant Journal. This time round I attempting to blend the essence of social media with the immutable Dharmic power-punch that is the Dalai Lama…Ok, I’ll be honest. I made a list while driving home from work and listening to Lady [...]
Shinran’s 750th Memorial & Great Faith
Posted in Buddha, Buddhism, Uncategorized, tagged Buddhism, esoteric buddhism, ramblings, Shin Buddhism, shinran on February 26, 2010 | 10 Comments »
This weekend marks the 750th anniversary (here at least) of the founder of Shin Buddhism; Shinran’s memorial. You can check out a live stream of this event and some keynote speakers here (for good blog post on someone more knowledgable about Shin Buddhism check out this post). For those that are not familiar with Shinran, he was a Tendai monk [...]
South Dakota, Climate Change and Tibetan? Astrology
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Hello Climate-Scientists! Welcome to South Dakota! Land of the science of astrology. Please leave a comment concerning how silly this is…
From Think Progress
Last week, the South Dakota House of Representatives passed a resolution to “urge” public schools to teach astrology. By a 36-30 vote, the legislators passed House Concurrent Resolution 1009, “Calling for balanced teaching [...]
No Buddhists in Washington?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am breaking my blogging fast due to this great article by the Good Reverend Danny on Religious Dispatches:
The “Religious Literacy Dictionary” in Stephen Prothero’s 2007 bestseller, Religious Literacy, devotes less than two pages to “Buddhism,” but spends seven lines making the point that “Buddhists have not been particularly active in American politics.” This notion, [...]
A Short Break and Gender Neutrality
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am taking a short hiatus from blogging to catch up on work, life and a few other small projects I am currently working on. I appreciate everyone’s readership and comments so feel free to explore some of the links and the feed on the sidebar while I desperately try to get my crap in order.
It [...]
Buddhobloggosphere Tiger Woods Roundup (Now With Evangelicals!)
Posted in Buddha, Buddhism, tagged Buddhobloggosphere, current events, evangelicals on February 20, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A quick and dirty round-up of the flavor of the week…again – Tiger Woods.
Precious Metal ~Tiger Wood Comments on his Buddhist Background
Bayou Buddhists ~ The Year of the Buddhist Tiger
Truth is Within ~ Tiger Woods was a Buddhist
Wildmind ~ Tiger Woods and Buddhism
Novaslim ~ Tiger Woods and Buddhism in the same sentence: No More Pls
Faith & Reason ~ [...]
Pretas, A world of craving and Tiger Woods (ugh. again)
Posted in Buddha, Buddhism, Uncategorized, tagged Buddhism, ramblings, Tiger Woods, videos, zen, zen ramblings on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
images of Preta by Jeff Wigman
Hungry Ghosts or preta are represented as human-like beings in appearence with huge, distended but ultimately empty and echoing stomachs, unable to be filled. Their scrawny, thin necks and small, toothless mouths symbolize the cause of their unending hunger and craving and their inability to appease it through external means. Pretas can attempt to ingest those things that they crave but it never [...]
Sitting with my inner child
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Wednesday Morning Buddhist WTF on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I sit with my inner child. I just really wish that my inner child wasn’t Yotsuba.
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