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Hello, this blog is about my life as a father, Buddhist and Japanophile / Koreaphile. Any useful information I can pass along will hopefully make the Internets a better place. Thanks for reading!
Category Archives: Tibetan
New Member of the Family: the Medicine Buddha
No, we haven’t had another baby yet; that’s still a work in progress. Instead, I have a new statue in the makeshift collection / Buddhist altar on my bookshelf: This is a statue of the Medicine Buddha, or Yakushi Nyorai … Continue reading
Little by little
A very nice quote from Shunryu Suzuki’s book, Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind:* After you practice for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Meditations
In Buddhism, there are generally two categories of meditation. In Ven. Yin-Shun’s book The Way to Buddhahood, he spends the last section of the book dealing with mindfulness and meditation. Yin-Shun is a very well-respected Ch’an Buddhist monk who passed … Continue reading
Ph34r the Reaper
In her dream the Nun of the Second Rank asked, “Where has this carriage come from”? “From the tribunal of King Enma,” [Lord of the Dead] was the reply, “It has come to fetch His Lordship [Taira no Kiyomori]…” “And … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism, Jodo Shinshu, Jodo Shu, Religion, Tibetan, Zelazny
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Anger
I started reading Shantideva’s treatise, the Bodhicaryāvatāra or “Way of the Bodhisattva“* again. I had half-finished the book before moving to Ireland, and am going through finishing a lot of half-read stuff in my library. Chapter 6 is a very … Continue reading
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Room for both!
Here’s a random, but cool Buddhist sutra I found in the Pali Canon. I tend to be something of a scholar of the Buddhist texts. I rarely meditate* and spend a lot of effort reading and discerning various Buddhist texts, … Continue reading
The boiling pot of water
A while back I listened to some really good Dharma talks by the Chinese Buddhist nun, Ven. Sister Fa Xun in Australia, and she described the mind and its cravings like a pot of boiling water. If you put some … Continue reading
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Unofficial Buddhist Terminology
For those who’ve been in the Western Buddhist community long-enough, you begin to see certain trends among its followers. Someone compiled a list of unofficial Buddhist terms that are just too funny to ignore. A few examples: HUNGRY GHOSTS: Used … Continue reading
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Buddhism in Ireland
Well, as I am moving to Ireland in about 4-5 weeks (still finishing some immigration/moving details), I took a look at Buddhism in Ireland, just to see what’s there. The results were not too surprising. According to the 2006 Census, … Continue reading
