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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 – [...] Confession of a monk… I got an e-book reader. Tired of lugging around boxes full of books… actually, I’ll probably continue to do that anyway, masochist that I am :) The upshot of it is I’ve found a way to turn html books into epub format that fits nicely on the reader. And I’m [...]
I was recently alerted via twitter to a Bill Maher article in which he does some pretty serious Buddhism-bashing. The alert came from this Buddhist blog, in the form of an open letter to Mr. Maher. I think the letter was quite well written, but not exactly how I would address this issue. Great to hear, though I’m a bit skeptical… I’ve quoted him before as saying he didn’t believe it humanly possible to follow the Buddha’s path, which is perhaps the reason he fell off it in the first place? Anyway, here’s the quote of the day: Part of following this path for me is Buddhism, [...] “In sooth to every man that’s born A hatchet grows within his mouth Wherewith the fool whene’er he speaks And speaks amiss, doth cut himself.” – AN 10 Something interesting I found today at: http://www.palikanon.com/english/timetable.htm THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
Chronological Table of Important Events Prepared by Olcott Gunasekera – Director, There are many problems in preparing a Due to scantiness of information, certain Back at Wat Thai of Los Angeles; good to be back home. A little sick, so all keep this short… just thought I’d post my yearly offering of holiday carols for the third year in a row. I’ve given it its own page now: http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/articles/buddhist-christmas-carols/ Enjoy, mindfully. Easily done by the good is good; good by the evil is hard to do. – Vinaya Evil by the evil is easily done; evil by the noble is hard to do. – Vinaya Goals slip by for a fool who blindly follows the stars. – Jaataka Touched by pleasure or by pain, the [...] |
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