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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 [...] I guess I do post Buddhist stuff here, though it seems pretty insubstantial… somehow I got on someone’s list of top fifty Buddhist blogs… makes me think there can’t be many more than that out there. Anyway, it’s a good list, I think, so check it out and assumedly find some good Buddhist blogs… besides, of course, this good Buddhist blog, or whatever it is…
Sadly, whoever is behind this site neglected to offer links to the weblogs, though they expect us to post links to their site (in the form of badges). That’s really bad form, in my opinion (it means we direct traffic to their site, but they don’t direct traffic to ours), so I’m taking the liberty of reposting the list here with links added: Continue reading Best Buddhist Blog 2010! Or Something Like That… Props to Pooja for reminding me of what Google figured out a long time ago: bland is best. Pictures, colors, lights only distract from the matter at hand; focus is dispersed and the import of the message is lost. So, after pulling my hair out trying to find a good WordPress theme, here I [...] 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. Left Wat Thai for good. I apologize to those who have been offended by my weblog; it was never my intention to make people unhappy reading it, and I am to blame for thinking my audience smaller than it is. Next time, please let me know in advance if I post something you find [...] Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. –Carl Jung Human beings are a funny lot. We pride ourselves on our ability to parse stimuli rationally and yet we rarely, if ever, accomplish the task. Take the Internet, for instance. As fascinating as [...]
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. Just got meself a skype number: +1 818 824 6654… not to be an unpaid advertisement for the sky people, but it costs my students $5 a month to get me a telephone number and unlimited calling to anywhere in North America. And now I have an excuse when people try to offer to [...] |
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