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Lama Surya Das: Spirituality in a Busy Life
Think you can't fit spirituality into your schedule? Buddhist author Lama Surya Das shows you how to convert everyday tasks--washing dishes, shoveling snow--into meditative exercises.
Buddhist Prayer of the Day
Prayer for Peace and Protection
Kwan Yin of the gentle hands, with arms held wide in benediction: come between my enemies and me and join us together in peace.
- Ceisiwr Serith
Source: "A Book of Pagan Prayer" © 2002 Ceisiwr Serith. Reprinted with permission of Red Wheel/Weiser.
TAGS: Buddhism, New Age, Pagan, Peace, Protection
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Hardcore Dharma does not exist.
Before the Buddha became all Bodhi, he did Shamatha and sustained Samadhi. But much like Einstein took Newtonian physics one step further or the Beatles improved on Elvis, the Buddha saw that something good could be made better. The problem with the Jhanas, or Samadhi, or the concentration...
Treeleaf Zen
Zazen & the Colonoscopy
.Our series on "Zazen in the Hospital" continues with today's adventure in my "soon turning 50" routine medical check up ... the dreaded: COLONOSCOPY ...(A little more dreaded here in Japan, where no anesthesia is used and the patient is wide awake the whole time. Talk about an "Inner Enlightenment"!)A...Buddhist Quote of the Day
Without realizing the unity of Bliss and Void, Even though on the Void you meditate, You practice only Nihilism.
Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt. Reprinted by arrangement with Tarcher/Putnam, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.
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