NEWS: Ceasefire Brokered at Preah Vihear
SEAArch – The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog has details.
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Rev. Danny Fisher
Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
Month: February, 2011
February 21, 2011
A Gift of Dharma for 2.21.11
Today’s quote comes to us from Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, a Tibetan Buddhist nun in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is also the author of Reflections on a Mountain Lake: Teachings on Practical Buddhism, and the subject of Vicki Mackenzie’s extraordinarily popular book Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo’s Quest for Enlightenment. I previously wrote a longer bio for her in this post. This is it – yet another one of Tricycle‘s Daily Dharma quotes this week:
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don’t need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.
February 21, 2011
Picture of the Day…
"Buddhist monks from the Busshinji temple, meditate on the helipad of the Copan building in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 18, 2011. Buddhist monks from the Busshinji temple in Sao Paulo meditate once a month on top of the 37-story high building, one of the tallest in city. Monks want to take meditation from the temple to the streets, and they consider the Copan building a Zen Buddhist mountain in the middle of the city." Photo by Nacho Doce for Reuters.
February 21, 2011
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‘s Editor and Publisher James Shaheen on Recent Zen Sex Scandals
Read the whole thing here, at Tricycle – Awake in the World; it’s James’s take on the recent controversies involving Eido Shimano Roshi and Dennis Genpo Merzel.
February 21, 2011
Maia Duerr on “The Buddha and the Budget”
Our pal Maia Duerr has a great post at her blog The Jizo Chronicles in which she offers “a couple of insights from wise people about what’s going on with the U.S. Congress and the federal budget, and [shares] some ideas about what to do.” Take a look.
