Tricycle Editor James Shaheen on Buddhism and Science
Following His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s comments on Buddhism and science in Korea today, editor and publisher James Shaheen offers a thoughtful post at the Tricycle Editor’s Blog. Check it out.
Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: June, 2010
June 26, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.26.10
Today, on the occasion of my baby sister Anna’s wedding, the dharma quote is one from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987), whom I first quoted and wrote a little bio for here. Congratulations, Anna and Matt! This is it–from editor Carolyn Rose Gimian’s Ocean of Dharma: The Everyday Wisdom of Chogyam Trungpa, pg. 254:
When you get married you shouldn’t expect anything at the beginning, but you should try to work together with your husband or wife. Basically speaking, marriage is a joint effort of trying to solve one another’s problems, and trying to make a creative world. As long as you are not immediately looking for an ideal, happy life, you can work with marriage. On the other hand, the idea of working with problems all the time can be overwhelming. It is a question of intelligence on both sides, and at the same time, there is a need for tremendous awareness and mindfulness. Each communication that takes place between the two of you has to be sacred in some sense. You should regard your partner as a spiritual friend of some type, and try to work along with that. When there is that kind of working basis taking place, I don’t see any particular obstacles.
The relationship might change anywhere: right at the beginning, or halfway through. It may not always be the same kind of relationship, because each one of you begins to grow up. So it might take a different shape; it might produce different kinds of phenomena. Nonetheless, it is workable, as long as there is a dharmic connection, a spiritual connection.
June 25, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.25.10
Today’s quote is from my wonderful editor at Shambhala Sun Space, the great Rod Meade Sperry. Rod, who also blogs at The Worst Horse, celebrates a birthday this week. Happy Birthday, sir! Here’s a bit of his wisdom for you:
[The web is] an incredible gift of skillful means. It allows people to contribute in the way that they can contribute. We see so many new blogs and websites that are not run by teachers. They’re run by practitioners; they’re run by young people who want to talk about dharma, to be part of it.
June 24, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.24.10
Today’s quote is another from our friend and wonderful Naropa University prof The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen, whom I previously produced a little biography for here. It’s his birthday today, so it seemed fitting to acknowledge that in this way–Happy Birthday, Rinpoche! Thank you for all that you offer. This is today’s quote from him:
If you keep telling yourself, ‘There is a ghost, there is a ghost!’ the space will haunt you.
June 23, 2010
A Gift of Dharma for 6.23.10
Today’s dharma quote is yet another from the Vidyādhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987), whom I first quoted and wrote a little bio for here. This is it–a quote from his book The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation that is used as the epigraph for Rodney Smith’s new book Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No-Self:
There is no such thing as spiritual practice except stepping out of self-deception and stopping our struggle to get hold of spiritual states. Just give that up, other than that there is no spirituality.
