Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

Month: October, 2010

A Gift of Dharma for 10.27.10

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 recently on the Dharma Ocean Foundation’s Facebook page:

A relationship based on affirming the other person’s independence and their right to be who they are fully is a relationship that’s very strong. But it is risky-is it not-because when we let go of the other we never really know what they’re going to do with that freedom, and even if for 99 years they’re with you, year 100 they might not be.

A Gift of Dharma for 10.26.10

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 recently on the Dharma Ocean Foundation’s Facebook page:

The more we open ourselves to this hugely energetic and profuse and chaotic and tumultuous world of ours the more shaky and afraid we become; and the more shaky we become the more we try to find things to hang on to, and the more we try to find things to hang on to, the more opportunity we have to see our clinginess and be willing to let go.

Mark Unno and Phakchok Rinpoche Lecture on Buddhism at the University of British Columbia

A Great Shot from Last Weekend’s Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions Event in Menlo Park, CA

(L-R) The Buddhist Churches of America's Bishop Koshin Ogui, the author, Karen Armstrong, Alisa Roadcup, and the Compassionate Action Network's Jeris JC Miller at a benefit for the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions in Menlo Park, CA, October 16, 2010. Photo © Nadine Priestley, www.nadinepriestley.com.

A Gift of Dharma for 10.25.10

Socho Ogui in TricycleToday’s quote is from the wonderful Bishop Koshin Ogui, Socho of the Buddhist Churches of America.  (I was honored and privileged to meet and spend some time with Bishop Ogui recently at at a benefit for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions in Menlo Park, CA, and found him to be a really extraordinary man.) This is it:

Three important things for anyone who associate with me. First one is ‘don’t be too serious.’ Second one is ‘don’t lose sincerity, don’t lose heart.’ And third one is ‘don’t lose sense of humor.’ Those are very, very important three things to associate with me and associate with, I hope, the Buddha’s teaching. How easily we become very serious, when someone cuts off in front when you’re driving, we give all kinds of signs. Such a nice beautiful lady show such a face! Unbelievable, isn’t it!