My first groupies deserted me… Here’s a note from WeLoveMonk:
Hi yuttadhammo!
We’re fans, as you can tell.
Sorry about the kiss mark. :P We really couldn’t find clip art of a heart, so we figured a silly lip mark will communicate our admiration. (I mean, we don’t wanna kiss you on the lips [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick update.
Tomorrow I’m taking one of my students to the Metro Detention Center to help translate during my volunteer chaplain service. It’s nice to be on the giving side, helping the incarcerated deal with the stress of confinement and an uncertain future. Having been falsely arrested and spending a night in [...]
By Ven Dr. K Sri Dhammananda
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‘Brethren, if outsiders should speak against me, or against my teaching, or against my disciples, you should not on that account either bear malice, or suffer heart-burning, or feel ill-will. If you, on that account, should be angry and hurt, that would stand in the way of your own self-conquest. If, when others speak against us, you feel angry at that, and displeased, would you then be able to judge how far that speech of theirs is well said or ill?’
‘That would not be so, Sir.’
‘But when outsiders speak in dispraise of me, or of my teaching, or of my disciples, you should unravel what is false and point it out as wrong, saying: “For this or that reason this is not the fact, that is not so, such a thing is not found among us, is not in us.”
- DN 1 (Brahmajala Sutta)
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.
Continue reading The Buddhism of Bill Maher
It’s funny how things work… I just got around to sending Tiger Woods a “How To Meditate DVD” (along with a bonus “Why Everyone Should Meditate” DVD) this afternoon, when what should I see on Facebook but the following video clip:
First of all, Buddhism is not a faith, it is a practice. [...]
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.
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