2010 December 30 « Rev. Danny Fisher

A Gift of Dharma for 12.30.10

Today’s quote is from Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche – founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute, and author of such books as The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep; Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen; and Wonders of the Natural Mind: The Essence of Dzogchen in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet. This is it — one of Snow Lion Publications’ recent Dharma Quotes of the Week:

Attaining realization is not such a long path once we become able to integrate all our movements of energy in our practice, because then every action is governed by presence and becomes a step on the path and an expression of virtue.

Practice is not only sitting in meditation, reciting mantras, or chanting. It is the application of practice in daily life that is most difficult, working with our energy in every life situation, with every sense perception, with every person we meet, whether we want to encounter that person or not.

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Dr. Janet Gyatso on Christmas for Her as a Someone Who Practices a Mix of Judaism and Buddhism

This via Shambhala Sun‘s Facebook page: Mark Oppenheimer (whom I’ve blogged about on two occasions recently) wrote a piece for The New York Times this week about Christmas for religious minorities. The great Dr. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, is among those he spoke to for the piece. I appreciated her comments:

I grew up Jewish, and my own practice is a mix of Judaism and Buddhism and being a critical intellectual and not identifying with the practice of any of it, per se. But Buddhism teaches one to be as generous and open-minded as possible. Any remaining feelings of being excluded from Christmas as a kid have simply vanished for me as an adult. One just takes pleasure from it all.

December 30, 2010

Check Out the Clear View Blog!

Hozan Alan Senauke — the mighty founder of the Clear View Project, co-founder of Think Sangha, vice-abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, and former executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship — has joined the Buddhoblogosphere! Check out the Clear View Blog at http://clearviewblog.org!