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Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
March 18, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 3.18.10
Today’s quote is from Chandrakirti, the seventh-century Indian scholar-practitioner and author of Introduction to the Middle Way and Clear Words. This is it:
Those who, when hearing about emptiness,
Are inspired with great joy again and again,
So that their eyes moisten with tears,
And the hairs on their body stand on end,
Possess the potential for complete awakening.
They are the proper vessels for these teachings,
To them one should teach the ultimate truth.
March 18, 2010
Watch More of PBS’s The Buddha
The YouTube channel for PBS’s The Buddha is continuing to post the whole thing, piece-by-piece. (I posted the first fifteen minutes of the program here.) These are some more pieces…
March 18, 2010
The World’s Oldest University Library…
…is the one at a well-known ancient Buddhist monastery, as it turns out. Ask the ALA Librarian has the story. (Thanks to my mom, The Quilted Librarian, for the tip.)
March 18, 2010
Opéra de Paris Presents a New Ballet: Siddharta
"Siddharta, © Photo: Anne Deniau/Opéra de Paris"
The Agence France-Presse has the story.
