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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 [...] Male. Meditates, or would like to start. Good at sitting still. Language skills an asset. Room and board provided. Job description: keep women away from monk, bear witness to monk’s conversations with women. Interested, send note to: yuttadhammo (gmail). Touched down in LA, made my way back to the monastery only to have to turn around and head back to save a visiting nun from deportation. All is well, time to rest. Tomorrow is the first day of my planned stayputting in Los Angeles. Wish me luck. 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. So, it shouldn’t come as a really big surprise to see the Buddhist blogverse seeming to beat this story to death. And I’m not about to give up, of course. Here’s some more in the way of understanding Tiger Woods. 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, [...] 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 [...] I really don’t have enough time to do justice to this topic, and probably should have known better than to stick my nose into it so close to a trip abroad, but hopefully I can just close up here with a few points that I’ve come up with, maybe right, maybe wrong. First, some [...] Sorry, I couldn’t help myself; the title is a shameless bow to the search engine gods. So, I wrote an outline of why I don’t think there is any need to bother with ordaining Bhikkhunis, and got a very polite and educated response from a Theravada Bhikkhuni on the matter. Here are some of [...] EDIT: I think I’ve had my mind changed on the matter… please read this post as well: http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/posts/modern-monkwarfare/ One day I’ll write an article about the Bhikkhuni situation… probably by then it will make me the black sheep of the international monastic community. But that is something about which I’ve never cared before, so [...] |
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