Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

Month: January, 2011

January 24, 2011

Foreign Policy‘s Exclusive Look Inside Thailand’s Dhammakaya Movement

"Newly dressed in the monks' robes, these men are following customs that date back 25 centuries. The first followers of Buddha set aside all worldly possessions and lived simply, wearing only one robe. Legend has it that the robes were patched together of various scraps of cloth and washed so often in the spice-laden waters of southern Asia that they took on the colors of cumin or curry." Photo by Luke Duggleby for Foreign Policy.

Take a look writer Ron Gluckman and photographer Luke Duggleby’s photo essay “Close Encounters of the Buddhist Kind” here.  FYI:  Words like “cult” tell you something about the overall tone of the piece.

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January 24, 2011

Time Magazine and CNN Look at Self-Immolation

"Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street June 11, 1963 to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government." Photo by Malcolm Browne for the AP.

Read their pieces here and here, respectively.

January 24, 2011

Cambodian Prince Yuvaeneath Norodom Visits Virginia’s Quan Am Phat Diem Buddhist Temple

Read the connected article at the Richmond Times-Dispatch here.

January 24, 2011

The Secular Buddhist Interviews Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Listen to a lively, delightful discussion between our friend and wonderful Naropa University prof Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and Ted Meissner on The Secular Buddhist podcast here.

January 23, 2011

A Gift of Dharma for 1.23.11

Today’s quote is from Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, founder and guiding teacher of Mangala Shri Bhuti, and author of books such as It’s Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path. This is it – another one of Tricycle‘s Daily Dharma quotes this week (I promise I’ll quite re-posting these when Trike stops picking such good quotes!):

What is so significant about the emotion of falling in love? When we are in love, we can’t stop thinking about the person whom we have fallen in love with; constantly we think how to cater to one’s love’s needs; how to make them happy; how to attend to one’s love’s concerns; how to add to their own strength and ability to clear away their suffering.

So in this strong emotion, you kind of forget about yourself. That has an aphrodisiac-like quality; it makes you incredibly high. Also a lot of courage comes up inside. What you before never imagined you were capable of doing, let alone for others, even for yourself!, you begin to have courage to do it so. That’s because your self-centeredness at that moment goes down, therefore courage is able to come up.

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