Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings

Month: April, 2011

A Gift of Dharma for 4.28.11

Today’s quote is another from the Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, whom I previously quoted and wrote a little bio for here. This is it:

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditating. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating, and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.

Urgent Appeal from Kirti Rinpoche

This via Tricycle – Awake in the World:

My Reincarnation Trailer

There’s more at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online.

A Gift of Dharma for 4.27.11

Today’s quote is another from the Most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, whom I previously quoted and wrote a little bio for hereThis is it:

Mindfulness brings concentration. Concentration brings insight. Insight liberates you from your ignorance, your anger, your craving. When you are free from your afflictions, happiness becomes possible. How can you be happy when you are overloaded with anger, ignorance, and craving? That is why the insight that can liberate you from these afflictions is the key to happiness. There are many conditions of happiness that are present, but people don’t recognize them because they are not mindful.

Kanzeon Zen Center Board Responds to Letter about Dennis Genpo Merzel signed by 66 Zen Teachers Affiliated with the American Zen Teachers Association

All the links are at Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly Online.

For past posts on all that’s been going on related to Genpo Merzel, see this postthis postthis postthis post, and this post.