Posts Tagged ‘media’

Buddhists are all about letting go, not clinging to things, it is true. But we’re also all about understanding things, which we believe is what leads us to be able to give up clinging. If you don’t really take the time to understand something, you can’t really expect to give up clinging it. [...]

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, which [...]

From the Pat-Yourself-On-The-Back Dept.
Please let me be excruciatingly clear that I am not trying to pat myself on the back with these posts… honestly, I’m just parroting what I’ve learned from others in these videos, so it’s not much of an ego boost at all. It’s terribly encouraging, though, to get such overwhelmingly positive [...]

Talk last night went quite well, I think… listen here:

Four Noble Truths at Grenada Hills Center For Spiritual Living
The center is in Grenada Hills (as if I know where that is…) and here’s their website:
http://www.cslgh.com/
Sounds like they might invite me back; I’d be happy to return, it’s a place with very good energy and nice, [...]

Here it is; the next generation in meditation huts:

And then we turned on the Thai version of Angulimala for my pre-teen protoges, and I realized that it is a perfect example of how forgiveness and redemption takes place for evil doers in Buddhism. Hope you appreciate this little cut-and-paste preview of the 90-min movie (I’ve fixed the horrid subtitles):

From the Beating-a-Dead-Horse Dept:
Not to compare religions out of context, but, regarding the following video:

The noun forgiveness has 2 senses:
1. forgiveness — (compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive)
2. forgiveness, pardon — (the act of excusing a mistake or offense)
Forgiveness in Christianity:
” ‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife [...]

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. If you [...]

Although this matter has been cleared up within the Thai press, it seems that the article in English has stirred up and agitated Western readers. This has been caused by some misrepresentations of the events of the press conference and the editorial language used in the article. Wat Nong Pah Pong feels that it is [...]

Reposting this, as the link has changed:
I never thought I would create a bit torrent, but in the end it has been a surprisingly pleasant experience. Create a DVD image file, make a corresponding .torrent file, then upload the latter to a public bit torrent site and start “seeding” the former to whoever wants [...]