Today’s quote is from Ju Mipham Rinpoche (1846–1912), a Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist master who played an important role in the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement in his native country. This is it:
Whenever there is focus or reference on something, that is poison to the view.
Whenever there is contrivance or effort, that is a fault of meditation.
Whenever there is some reification of adopting and rejecting, conduct is lost.
May we realize pure reality, free of pain.
This from CNN’s Belief Blog today:
"A scene from the documentary 'Burma VJ.'" Image via Oscilloscope Laboratories.
The Oscar-nominated Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, which features the work of citizen journalists inside the title country’s 2007 “Saffron Revolution,” has just received one of Amnesty International’s 2010 Media Awards. Read about it and other winners here.
As part of my work blogging for Shambhala Sun Space, I have interviewed a few people close to the production:
Photo by Dick Miller.
Via the Tricycle Editors’ Blog: Our friend and past interviewee Joan Halifax Roshi–one of the modern engaged Buddhist movement’s great heroines–gave a powerful teaching on grief recently that is now available online. Give a listen.
A Zen priest, anthropologist, shaman, activist, and author, Roshi is also the founder, abbot, and head teacher at Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
