Here’s something you don’t get everyday (thankfully ;) )… I’m not sure what to say, other than “danger, danger…” No, really, though, it’s kind of cute – love in its purist form is always a good thing, and I’m not so sexually insecure as to be afraid of such things as this. The lipstick [...]
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The following letter was printed in today’s issue of the Moorpark Acorn, without the “Dear Citizens of Moorpark,”. Instead, there is seen the heading “Buddhist Monk Says He’s Harmless”. Dear Citizens of Moorpark, I am writing to introduce myself as a new resident of your city. I am a Buddhist monk and I teach [...] After the hit that was this year’s Visakha Puja celebration, I wouldn’t have thought we could manage to pull it off again. In another amazing feat of determination and perseverence, we managed as a group to pull off another makeshift Buddhist celebration to rival any I’ve seen. Maybe I just like the small nature [...] Dear friends, I apologize for the late announcement; I’ve been a bit preoccupied lately. Today we will be celebrating the Buddha’s first teaching a day early, since today is Sunday and we hope more people will be able to come today than tomorrow. Please join us at 8 PM on this Sunday, July 25th [...] This Wednesday, July 7th, 5 PM, at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center, see the monk go back to jail. I’m volunteering with Religious Services at the Federal Detention Center in downtown LA. Not quite sure what I’ve gotten myself into, but thinking back over the mental anguish of imprisonment, a once-a-week chaplaincy [...] Here’s pictures of today; it was a grand day, made possible only by the concerted efforts of a number of very kind people; thanks to everyone for making this day one for the books. We hit nine monasteries in about ten hours, leaving cast-off robes for the monks at each place we visited – [...] A word on some of what has happened recently. I imagine news of the nature of my thoughts on this weblog has garnered me some new and unexpected audience members, hungry for at the least an explanation of the events leading up to what became an unfortunate misunderstanding between myself and a certain group of fellow human beings. I am sorry to say I will not satiate this desire; sorry only in the sense that one might wish to do one’s best to oblige the thirsts of others. But this story will have to lay unwritten. I was asked, ordered even, to at the very least post a revised version of my thoughts on the proper role of a Buddhist monastery in regards to the rest of human society and the proper every day attitude, behaviour and comportment of a Buddhist monk; revised, that is, from a recent post I put up briefly and quickly took down, though not quick enough. Settling in at what looks to be a home for at least a few months. Peaceful, quiet and conducive to meditative calm and insight. 4946 Vanalden Ave, Tarzana, CA Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden [...] Meeting today accomplished a few things. First, I managed to confuse the board members as to why I wouldn’t want to wear day-glow robes. Crazy Farang, I know. But they are supportive, and confident that they can figure out a solution to our dilemma. On the plus side, it sounds like by May there [...] |
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