Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

The Blogisattva Awards – “They’re baaaaaaaaaaaack!”

The Blogisattva Awards, honors for English-language blogging previously spearheaded by our friend Tom Armstrong a few years back, have been revived!  Thanks to Kyle of The Reformed Buddhist and Nate the Great at Precious Metal for firing them up again.

Nominations are currently being accepted in the following categories:

  • Blog of the year, Svaha!
  • Best Post of the Year
  • Best Achievement in Skilled Writing
  • Best Achievement Blogging on Buddhist Practice or Dharma
  • Best Buddhist Practice Blog
  • Best “Life” Blog
  • Best Blogging on Matters Philosophical, Psychological or Scientific
  • Best Achievement in Kind and Compassionate Blogging
  • Best Achievement Blogging Opinion Pieces or about Political Issues
  • Best Engage-the-World Blog
  • Best Achievement in Design
  • Best Achievement in Wide Range of Topic Interests Blogging
  • Best Achievement with Humor in a Blog Post

I’ve been both a nominee and a winner in the past.  To see those nods and ones for others, visit the pages that have been set up for the award years 20062007, and 2008.

Nominate bloggers and their posts and find more information at www.blogisattva.org.

A Gift of Dharma for 6.17.10

Today’s quote is yet another from our friend and former Naropa University professor Dr. Reginald A. Ray, whom I previously quoted and wrote a little biography for here.  This is it–posted today on the Dharma Ocean Foundation’s Facebook page:

The fact of the matter is, we are like an umbilical cord. One end of the umbilical cord needs to be hooked into the buddhas and bodhisattvas: to the Buddha nature in the universe. The other end needs to hook up with sentient beings. The fact is that we are really empty. We don’t have anything really solid to offer. It sounds nihilistic to say that. However, this person that we think of ourselves as being doesn’t have anything to offer except that we can be a channel. We can be a vehicle of the compassion that this universe has to offer. We can bring that compassion and we can transmit it to sentient beings.

Buddhist Kicks, True and False

FANTASY

Vs.

REALITY

The Tricycle Editors’ Blog has the story.

Buddhist Sculpture is a “Graffiti Magnet”

I previously posted about the debut of Zhang Huan’s large sculpture Three Heads Six Arms in San Francisco.  Today, the Tricycle Editors’ Blog points us to the news that the piece of art has unfortunately become a popular target for vandalism — some of it religiously intolerant.

“An Energy-Independent Future”

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