Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
February 3, 2010

Register Now for the Sacred Awakening Series

This from our friend the Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi (a participant in the event):

Dear friends,

I am delighted to invite you to participate with me in the Sacred Awakening Series, a unique teleseminar event featuring 40 spiritual leaders from every major tradition over 40 days – all for free.

Register now

Never before have so many leaders from so many lineages gathered on the phone to offer their secrets to living a sacred life. It promises to be a journey of personal transformation, deep connection, and inspiring examples of service.

I will participate in one of 40 teleseminars during the Series alongside deeply respected leaders such as Marianne Williamson, Robert Thurman, Sadhguru, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Luisah Teish, Rabbi Yehuda Berg, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim (full list below).

You can participate live on as many calls as you like and interact with both the leaders and other participants via a state-of-the-art MaestroConference platform.  Or you can just listen to the recordings later.

The series begins February 17th and is completely free.

Find out more

Please do share this invitation with friends and colleagues – all are warmly welcomed to participate. I hope to see you on my call!

Best,
Bhikkhu Bodhi

P.S. The Sacred Awakening Series gives you personal access to the following inspiring spiritual leaders:

Abdul Aziz-Said, Andrew Harvey, Angeles Arrien, Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, Ariel Spilsbury, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Chunyi Lin, Dattatreya Shiva Baba, Gangaji, Genpo Roshi, Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Grandmother Flordemayo, Isha Judd, James O’Dea, Jean Houston, Julia Butterfly Hill, Jyoti, Kali Ma, Kyriacos Markides, Leslie Temple Thurston, Luisah Teish, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Fox, Michael Tamura, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Rabbi Yehuda Berg, Rev. James Trapp, Rev. Michael Dowd, Sadhguru, Saniel Bonder & Linda Groves Bonder, Sequoia Trueblood, Sheikha Ayshegul Ashki, Shiva Rea, Sobunfu Some, Stanislav Grof, Stephen Dinan & Devaa Haley Mitchell, Swamiji Chidananda Saraswati, Tenzin Robert Thurman

Event Co-sponsors: Gaia Community and Gaia SoulMates, Unity, MaestroConference, The Shift Movie, Philosopher’s Notes, Spiritual Cinema Circle, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Center for Sacred Studies, Integrative Spirituality, Intent, and Intention Media

For more information, visit http://sacredawakeningseries.com.

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February 3, 2010

Behind the Scenes of a CNN Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Somehow I missed this when it first appeared on YouTube several months back, but I enjoyed discovering it today:

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February 3, 2010

More Magazine Profiles Pema Chödrön

Canada’s More Magazine offers a lengthy profile of the much-beloved Tibetan Buddhist nun Acharya Ani Pema Chödrön in a recent issue.  Check it out right here.  One choice snippet:

Compassion is a necessary foundation, since what she demands is so darn hard: Abandon hope, give up fear, let go of all attachment.

Chödrön’s message is neither new nor novel. The spiritual practices she advocates were developed more than 1,000 years ago in Tibet. Tibetan Buddhism isn’t a prescription for happiness or wealth. It is not a bromide that exalts the power of the will—à la The Secret—but a complex belief system that requires a rigorous dedication to truth, even when that truth is close to unbearable. “Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is…a hopeless cycle that goes round and round endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly,” Chödrön writes in her bestselling treatise When Things Fall Apart.

Instead of praying for bad times/things/people to go away, Chödrön counsels leaning into discomfort and following pain—even if the pain is simply looking at your own shortcomings, learning to recognize them without judgment and moving on.

This is the ruthless part. Chödrön’s Buddhism requires one to live with eyes wide open all the time. No fudging, no nudging, no lying to yourself even a tiny bit, not even once in a while. Tibetan monks dedicate their lives to perfecting this stuff; Chödrön’s followers try to do it while also staying on top of the laundry, paying bills and remembering to take the car in for service.

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February 3, 2010

“God and Groundhog Day“

An addendum to yesterday’s post: NPR’s The Takeaway interviews Groundhog Day screenwriter Danny Rubin and Angela Zito, co-director of NYU’s Center for Religion and Media, about the “variety of religious communities [who] see [the film] as an illustration of the tenets of their particular faiths.”  Listen here.

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