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In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, according to the Dalai Lama, a person should closely observe a teacher for three years before consenting to be his/her student. It takes that long, apparently, to clearly differentiate Mara from Buddha. Read more: Narcissism, Dalai Lama, Buddha, Mara, Buddhist Meditation, Buddhist Teachings, Scripture Commentary, Meditation, Buddhism, Enl...
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
- BJ Gallagher: Buddha: How To Tame Your Monkey Mind (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Buddha Is Culture (Category: Features)
- Jack Kornfield: 'A Lamp In the Darkness' (EXCERPT) (Category: Features)
I take it as some cosmic law of exchange that if Disneyland pops up in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Buddhist temples can sprout up in Los Angeles. Indeed, it comes as no surprise to many Californians the most complex Buddhist city in the world is here. Read more: Buddhism, Bill Clinton, Globalization, Enlightenment, Los Angeles, Meditation, Religion in America, Prayer and Meditatio...
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Practicing Perfection (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Be Inspired: Live Your Life With Awareness (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: The Power Of Sorrow (Category: Features)
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
In order to honor those who made our life possible, I suggest that we go back to some form of ancestor worship, which requires that we dig into our evolutionary past and evoke the spirit of those who made it possible for us to become the brilliantly befuddled humans we are today. Read more: Endangered Species, Ecology, Buddhism, Religion and Science, Evolution, Green Faith...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
Compassion does not imply ducking our responsibilities or shirking our power. Instead, it is a potent tool for transformation since it requires us to step outside of our conditioned response patterns. Read more: Interconnectedness, Outrage, Meditation, Buddhism, Sharon Salzberg, Compassion, Culture, Prayer and Meditation, Religion News
- Sogyal Rinpoche: How Buddhist Meditation Unlocks Our Natural Wisdom and Compassion (Category: Features)
- Susan Piver: The Power Of Sorrow (Category: Features)
- Darren Littlejohn: A Buddhist Yogi's Response To Mass Murder (Category: Features)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: The Lesson of a Leaf (Category: Features)
So many of us don't like contradictions. They upset the apple carts of our certainty. We're confident that our faith tradition is correct. So we do everything we can to make the contradictions go away. But maybe this kind of headache is precisely what we need. Read more: Christianity, Koan, Religion, Zen, Contradiction, Paradox, Spiritual Journey, Buddhism, Spiritual Path, ...
- Philip Goldberg: A New Way Of Being Religious (Category: Features)
- Ken McLeod: What Is Enlightenment? (Category: Features)
- W. Scott Poole: Accepting The Monster Into Your Heart (Category: Features)
- Steve McSwain: What I've Learned From The Spiritual Masters (Category: Features)
Some 95 percent of Cambodia's people are Buddhist. "Nation, Religion, King" is Cambodia's national motto and it is one of the few world nations where Buddhism is the state religion. The religious world here, however, is not just about Buddhism. Read more: Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Buddhism, Pagoda, Wat, Spirit Houses, Angkor Wat, Slideexpand, Religion News
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
- Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Learning Buddhism In The West, The Questions Of Women And Conflict (Category: Features)
How much positivity is too much? Where does healthy stop and delusional begin? And, maybe more to the point: Why does this kind of stuff feel like a relief? Read more: Unleash the Power Within, Positive Thinking, Oliver Burkeman, Perfectionism, Madeline Levine, The New York Times, Failure, Tiger Mother, Barbara Ehrenreich, Buddhism, Helicopter Parents, Tony Robbins, Overpar...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
The powerful links between a mature love of nature, the capacity for spiritual transcendence and our moral sense have an emotional resonance that can leave us lost for words. Today, however, those links are threatened in an unprecedented way. Read more: Spirituality, Climate Change, Evolution, Green Faith, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Religion News
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
- John Backman: Why Faith -- And We -- Need Contradictions (Category: Features)
- Richard Schiffman: Why We Need To Start Teaching About Religions In School (Category: Features)
- Religion, Politics And Africa's Homophobia (Category: Features)
Peter Hershock is the author of Buddhism in the Public Sphere, which presents a set of Buddhist perspectives on a series of political and policy challenges. Read more: Hershock, Education, Flourishing, Buddhism, East-West Center, Diversity, Improvisation, Education News
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
- Jennifer Hamady: The Wisdom of Ignorance (Category: Features)
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
Today, we too often believe that technology neatly solves a problem when in reality, technology merely shifts the nature of the challenges before us. I have no doubt that the inestimable Gene Smith deeply understood the depth of this issue. Read more: Digital Media, Historic Preservation, Tibet, Technology, Film, Buddhism, Rubin Museum of Art, Technology News
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
The quality of one's life is not determined by the circumstances. Is life perfect? No. I still manage to hit rough patches, or as friends say, "Oh great, another f-&*king growth opportunity." Read more: Buddhism Maitri, Coping Grief, Spirituality Grief, Pema Chodron, Friends in Deed, Grief, Crisis Opportunity, Buddhism, Chogyam Trungpa, Impact News
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- Bhagwan Chowdhry: Buddhist Emptiness For Scientists, Engineers And Mathematicians (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Learning Buddhism In The West, The Questions Of Women And Conflict (Category: Features)
"There are the tools that you use for personal practice that help keep you grounded. Then there are relational tools that Buddhism has for dealing with others. And then at the third level are the Buddhist tools for understanding the world and society." Read more: Think Tanks, Buddhism, Activism, Engaged Buddhism, Religion and Politics, Buddhist Activism, International Netwo...
- Wendi L. Adamek: Flashmob Meditators Occupy Wall Street (Category: Features)
- Bernie Glassman: Arising To The Interconnectedness Of Life (Category: Features)
- Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future Of Self-Transcendence (Category: Features)
The same monks who campaigned against a brutal former regime are advocating against a stateless people, for what appears to be no other reason than their race and religion. How can we make sense of this, and where do we go from here? Read more: Islam, Nonviolence, Human Rights, Burma, Rohingya, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Buddhism, Buddhist-Muslim Relations, Religion News ...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion renew humanity," the historical Buddha once said. One wonders what he would say now as innocent blood is shed in his name. Read more: Aung San Suu Kyi, Islam, Myanmar, Burma, Buddhism, Racial Discrimination, Myanmar Muslim Buddhist Clashes, Religion News
- Krystina Friedlander: Buddhists Monks Against Humanitarian Aid? (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Asian Elephants And Land Mines: A Rescue Mission (Category: Features)
- Abhishek Raman: The Lady’s Leap of Faith (Category: Features)
- 14 Stunning Buddhist Temples in Mandalay, Burma (PHOTOS) (Category: Features)
"Each person has a job to create the right consciousness in this moment, to bring positive energy to this world. Most people, they forget this moment and are always looking for something further. But we don't have further, we don't know next moment." Read more: Creativity, Pbs, Global Spirit, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, Art, Spirituality, Creative Spirit, Buddhism, Video, Reli...
- Gabrielle Bernstein: WATCH: Let Love Host Your Party (Category: Features)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Perfecting Patience (Category: Features)
- Joel and Michelle Levey: Reflections On Wisdom, Wellness, And Wholeness (Category: Features)
- Andrew Z. Cohen: Globalization Isn't Just For Economists (Category: Features)
During a break in a mixing session at a recording studio in Milan, Gomo Tulku, a Tibetan-American hip-hop artist, plays the sample he's inserting into... Read more: Gomo Tulku, Video, Buddhist Monk Turns to Music, Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism, Tulku, Buddhist, Buddhist Monk Leaves, Buddhist-Musicians, Buddhist Hip Hop Artist, Buddhism, Religion News
- WATCH: Protesters Want Buddhist Monk Accused Of Child Rape Removed From Post (Category: Features)
- Buddhist Monk Charged With Battery After Inappropriately Touching Man In Temple (Category: Features)
- Buddhist Monk Charged With Battery After Inappropriately Touching Man In Temple (Category: Features)
- WATCH: Dalai Lama Prays For Tibetans Who Self-Immolated (Category: Features)
Many people still see Buddhists only as robe-wearing monastics who have given up worldly things like sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Aren't Buddhists supposed to be beyond things like desire? Well, there are different kinds of Buddhists. Read more: 12-Step, Relationship Advice, Meditation, Buddhism, Religion and Sexuality, Addiction and Recovery, Addiction & Recovery,...
- Kevin Griffin: Recovery Through The Higher Power Of Karma (Category: Features)
- Year Of The Iron Tiger: Sex Addiction, Celebrity And 12-Step Buddhist Recovery (Category: Features)
- Owen Flanagan, Ph.D.: Bourgeois Buddhists: Do Americans Miss The Point Of Buddhism? (Category: Features)
I should practice Ahimsa, non-harming. But in the situation of a madman with four guns and gas canisters, it might not be so simple. Read more: Meditation, Yoga, Buddhism, Aurora Shooting, Compassion, Violence, Nonviolence, Buddhist Practice, Religion News
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
In a national survey providing one of the first detailed glimpses into how Hinduism is practiced in the United States, the Pew Research Center offers new data that illuminate the complexity and richness of our pluralistic democracy. Read more: Religion in America, Buddhism in America, Pew Research Center, Interfaith, Hinduism in America, Hinduism, Buddhism, Religious Plural...
- Philip Goldberg: A New Way Of Being Religious (Category: Features)
- Lewis Richmond: Western Buddhism: The 50 Year Lessons (Category: Features)
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
Dayangji Sherpa lives with her 25-year-old daughter, Nima, in a one-bedroom apartment in Woodside, Queens, where they sleep in the same bed to save mo... Read more: Buddhism, Religion News
If religions are to remain relevant today, they need to stop denying evolution and instead refocus their message on its meaning. Read more: Philosophy, Evolution, Buddhism, Religion and Science, Buddhism and Science, Eco-Buddhism Project, Religion News
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism, Cosmology And Evolution (Category: Features)
- Wes Nisker: Ancestors Of Awakening (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Climate, Evolution And The Human Spirit (Category: Features)
As an atheist, I do not believe in god. Neither does Dr. Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk who earned his PhD in cellular genetics and currently lives ... Read more: Religion News, Religion, Video, Dalai Lama, Atheism, Matthieu Ricard, Talk Nerdy to Me, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Science and Religion, Science News
- Pushed By Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists Study Science (Category: Features)
- Robert Lanza, M.D.: Religion Vs. Science's Answers To The Big Questions (Category: Features)
- David Loy: A Buddhist Philosophy Of Evolution (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: Buddhism, Cosmology And Evolution (Category: Features)
As someone dedicated to living a life of service to others, I have been struck recently by how little attention is paid to the amount of suffering in ... Read more: Congress, Poverty, US Poverty, Spirituality and Politics, Democrats, Tea Party, Compassion, Libertarians, Republicans, Buddhism, Culture News
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
Suzuki warned his audiences that ego-delusions spread great suffering everywhere. Get yourself out of the way, Suzuki said. Empty your own mind to see the spaciousness that is your birthright. Read more: John Cage Buddhist, Buddhist Sacred Sounds, Buddhist Sacred Music, John Cage, Buddhism, Sacred Sounds, Slideexpand, Religion News
- Ravenna Michalsen: Buddhist Songs About Cho And Machik Labdron (Category: Features)
- Ravenna Michalsen: LISTEN: Songs About The Buddha-To-Be (Category: Features)
- Beijing Eyes Buddhist Resurgence (Category: Features)
Both the Buddha and Lao Tze talk about taking a middle road and living a harmonious, balanced life, and that is precisely what is required when it comes to judging. Read more: Addiction, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Judgment, Buddhism, Taoism, Religion News
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
As we enlarge our spiritual capacity to be with all of our experience, we also gain the capacity to be with the all of the experience of greater and greater numbers of beings. Read more: Buddha, Buddhist Meditation, Buddhist Teachings, Dharma, Buddhism, Religious Diversity, Diversity, Religion News
- Larry Yang: Dharma Is Culture (Category: Features)
- Larry Yang: Buddha Is Culture (Category: Features)
- Thomas David DuBois: Is Buddhism Agnostic? (Category: Features)
If self-immolation is intended as the ultimate rejection of Chinese control, a cry for independence and a declaration of human rights, what does this imply to the outside world? And what can this mean to us? Read more: Dalai Lama, Hunger Strike, Tibet, Buddhism, Self-Immolation, Genocide, Meditation, Tibetan Buddhism, Religion News
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
- Wes Nisker: A Fool's Paradise (Category: Features)
- Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: The Karmapa: Tibetan Buddhism's Next Great Leader? (Category: Features)
A devoutly Buddhist, lesbian couple will officially wed next month in Taiwan reports the Taipei Times. 30-year old Fish Huang and her partner will ... Read more: Taiwan Lesbian Wedding, Taiwan, Video, Gay Rights, Buddhist, Lesbian, Buddhism, Gay Marriage, Lesbian Buddhist Couple, Religion News
- Religion, Politics And Africa's Homophobia (Category: Features)
- Gay pride on display in Melbourne parade (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Lewis Richmond: A Cultural History Of The Word 'Enlightenment' (Category: Features)
- Buddhist Relics Worth Millions Seized In Pakistan (Category: Features)
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani police seized a large number of ancient Buddhist sculptures that smugglers were attempting to spirit out of the country and sel... Read more: Smuggling Relics, Buddhist Relics, Buddhism, Buddhist Smuggling, Religion News
- Exposition of Kapilavastu to be extended to Sep 11 (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian representatives acclaim the veneration made to Kapilavastu Relics (Category: Breaking News)
- Exposition of Kapilawastu Sacred Relics in Anuradhapura (Category: Breaking News)
- Sacred Relics ceremonially taken to India (Category: Breaking News)
Just as a sponge can only take on water after being wrung out, so too must we be able -- regardless of our experience or education -- to continually renounce our own fullness, lest we become bloated and stale. Read more: Arrogance, Ignorance, Humility, Wisdom, Orson Scott Card, Writing, The Book of Mormon, Ender's Game, George Rr Martin, Wonder, Closed-Mindedness, Joy,...
- Dimitri Hamlin: Is That All There Is? The Question Of Nihilism (Category: Features)
- David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment (Category: Features)
- Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom (Category: Features)
- John Stanley: A Buddhist Ecology Of Self (Category: Features)
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