Vox’s posts tagged buddhism

Robin Hood: The New Zen Warrior

2008-10-06T03:08:00Z

I am so pumped about this film. I've been following Robin Hood: The New Zen Warrior since I first heard about it and checked out the official website at www.robinhoodfilm.com I watched the original teaser and I was totally hooked but now t...

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Commenter: The Dalai Lama is False

2008-09-30T14:56:46Z

Commenter Vajra has this to say pertaining to the post “THE DHIMMI DALAI LAMA:” You can read more about this false Dalai Lama and where he comes from. http://www.westernshugdensociety.org/en/reports/false-dalai-lama This was kind of an eni...

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we can change our relationship to other living creatures

2008-09-30T08:11:37Z

I have spent many hours catching insects in a cup and taking them outside. We can do that. We can change our relationship to other living creatures. This is not to suggest that the answers are always clear-cut and easy. If termites are eating up y...

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choosing not to allow reaction

2008-09-29T20:03:56Z

A sensation appears, then liking or disliking begins. This fleeting moment, if we are unaware of it, is repeated and intensified intocraving and aversion, becoming a strong emotion that eventually overpowers the conscious mind. We become caught up...

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true dialogue

2008-09-29T20:02:18Z

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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THE DHIMMI DALAI LAMA

2008-09-29T17:48:39Z

The Dalai Lama is a Tibetan Buddhist. He is seriously taking a public stand that Islam is a religion of peace. He seriously believes the acts of violence in the Middle East and beyond is the handiwork of “a few mischievous people.” The Dalai L...

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a balance between heart and mind

2008-09-27T16:18:21Z

The Buddha compared faith to a blind giant who meets up with a very sharp-eyed cripple, called wisdom. The blind giant, called faith, says to the sharp-eyed cripple, "I am very strong, but I can't see; you are very weak, but you have sharp eyes. C...

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going against the stream

2008-09-27T16:16:43Z

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along in the stream of past conditioning and habit. The moment we decide to stop and look at what...

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seeing it for what it is

2008-09-25T18:43:56Z

One finds that no matter how sincere one's intention to be attentive and aware, the mind rebels against such instructions and races off to indulge in all manner of distractions, memories and fantasies....The comforting illusion of personal coheren...

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right livelihood

2008-09-24T19:49:37Z

There are two criteria for right livelihood. First, it should not be necessary to break the five precepts in ones work, since doing so obviously causes harm to others. But further, one should not do anything that encourages other people to break t...

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dharma and economy

2008-09-24T19:46:33Z

Awakening entails economic pursuits that foster self-respect and self-reliance and that serve to integrate, rather than disperse, the energies of the local community. From the perspective of the Dharma, economic goals include not only production a...

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Myth of Myself by Alan Watts

2008-09-23T00:25:13Z

My chief objection is that there is no allowance for the Deity of Afterlife in the philosophy of Alan Watts.Yet as an Orthodox Christian and a firm believer in science much of what Watts is saying in the video rings true. This separation between...

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mindfulness and concentration

2008-09-17T18:05:07Z

Some people do not know the difference between "mindfulness" and "concentration." They concentrate on what they're doing, thinking that is being mindful. . . . We can concentrate on what we are doing, but if we are not mindful at the same time, wi...

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spiritual nourishment

2008-09-17T17:56:07Z

The person that desires to have only pleasure and refuses pain expends an enormous amount of energy resisting life - and at the same time misses out enormously. He or she is on a self-defeating mission in any case, for just as we evade certain for...

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time

2008-09-17T17:55:25Z

Do not think that time merely flies away. Do not see flying away as the only function of time. If time merely flies away, you would be separated from time. The reason you do not clearly understand the time-being is that you think of time only as p...

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But......But.......Buddhism Sells!

2008-09-16T14:28:12Z

For the rest of the conversation, please follow the "Clipped From" Link at the top of the clip. :-) clipped from www.buddhistchannel.tv The Buddha Logo by Ven. Shravasti Dhammika, Lanka Web, Sept 15, 2008 Singapore -- Some months back I ...

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revolution without warfare

2008-09-14T19:22:25Z

Shakyamuni Buddha's revolution was without warfare; without provoking violent opposition, he defied prevalent Brahmanic conventions to teach not only rulers and wealthy merchants but outcasts, the disinherited, street punks, even - eventually - wo...

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Killing more trees, burning money

2008-09-12T23:26:53Z

This year's classes have an incredibly large amount of required textbooks. I've never had to buy this many textbooks in my university history. For example, my Zen Buddhism class requires 5 textbooks (of which I've purchase one). Given, that is a o...

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budd it like beckham?

2008-09-12T16:32:22Z

ApparentlyDavid Beckham and and his wife Victoria are reportedly embracing Buddhism.

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be warned!

2008-09-11T19:32:39Z

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in fr...

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