"A highly individualized spiritual belief system composed of selected elements drawn from various doctrines." — Judie Sigdel
This is the second post in a series about bardo, an “in between” or “transitional” state between lives. It is from a scholarly work by a contemporary Chinese monk, Master Shi Zhiguo, entitled Auspicious Birth. As you can see, I am including the Chinese source as well as the English translation. For additional background and context, please read Auspicious …
Several years ago, I was searching for an English-speaking Buddhist temple in Chinatown. I stumbled across a website, complete with a picture, about a Caucasian man who was a resident monk at a local temple. As fate would have it, I ran into the monk, Venerable Benkong, a couple of weeks later at the bus …
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren't alone] In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry] An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. -- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" DH and I were supposed to go antiquing upstate …
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn As my loyal readers (you know who you are!) may remember, I see a biofeedback therapist every week. Actually, I'm lucky enough to …
In addition to my meditation apps and gadgets, I have a virtual Sangha of like-minded seekers who I met online. I consider some of the people who have interacted with this blog to be members of this "e-Sangha." Others include online friends I have known for years who share their experience with Buddhism and other spiritual practices and support me on my quest.
The following post was written by spiritualjourney17. It really made me think. If you enjoy it, please "like" it and leave a comment on spiritualjourney17's blog.
I don't remember being overtly bullied when I was a child, but I was definitely the odd man out. I was surrounded by other children, but I was alone. Alone in the classroom. Alone on the playground. Painfully alone. Part of the problem was that I read constantly in class regardless of the lessons or …
When I logged into my computer this morning, the first thing that I read was the following post from tiramit. Although his headaches stem from a different cause than mine, I was very moved by the way he described dealing with one from a mindfulness perspective. I wholeheartedly recommend subscribing to tiramit's blog dhamma footsteps. …
Yesterday, one of coworkers, T., who is twenty-something and was raised in China, asked me if I had "seen the parade" on the way to work. I said that I had not and asked what the parade was for. T. said, "I don't know how to say it in English." I said, "Tell me in …
some have wanted to worship the Buddha as a powerful foreign god). It simply requires one to relinquish the notion of self and follow a path designed to provide a way out of the trap of cyclic existence.
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