Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: June, 2010
June 29, 2010
“A Buddhist Celebration in Sri Lanka”
CNN Assignment Editor Maggie Mazzetti reports on Vesak celebrations in Columbo, Sri Lanka, for the network’s Belief blog.
June 29, 2010
The International Burma Monks Association, Human Rights Watch, and JWT Team Up at Grand Central Station to Free Political Prisoners
"Monks from the International Burma Monks Organization appear at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday at an art and photo installation." Photo by Paul Charbonnier for The New York Times.
Read about it at The New York Times.
June 28, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.28.10
Today’s quote is from Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253), the founder of Japan’s Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism and author of the Shōbōgenzō. This is it–quoted in Taizen Maizumi Roshi’s Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice, pg. 31:
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
June 27, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.27.10
Today’s quote is from the late, great Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920-1996), one of the most remarkable Kagyu/Nyingma masters of the last century, as well as father of renowned Buddhist masters Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche. This is it:
If you believe there is a thing called mind, it is just a thought. If you believe there is no thing called mind, it’s just another thought. Your natural state, free of any kind of thought about it—that is buddhanature. Mind is similar to space, in that it is insubstantial, not material. Isn’t it quite amazing that something that is insubstantial is also able to experience?
