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My Buddha is pink: Bid adieu to your ennui

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Saturday, September 15, 2012. Bid adieu to your ennui. It has been months since I posted something, and even before that last post, my contributions to this blog have been sporadic. And to some extent, uninspired. There was something creeping into my life. It's called ennui. Then I read a message from someone I've been texting with and whom I was planning to meet in a couple weeks: "I hope you aren't expecting anything more than conversation when we meet.". Yes, our expectations. Not the thing itself...

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My Buddha is pink: The fine line between nothing matters and everything matters

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Sunday, March 2, 2014. The fine line between nothing matters and everything matters. An acquaintance of mine and I used to often chant, "It just doesn't matter." We would look at the ways of the world and think to ourselves, "Seriously? It is a beguiling notion and, unsurprisingly, many Buddhists succumb to the siren's call of nihilism. In fact, in my "Buddhism" list on Twitter, I saw this Tweet:. The problem with dinner banter is most people don't want to hear your views on how nothing matters.". Buddhi...

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My Buddha is pink: A Queer Eightfold Path-Right Intention

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Sunday, May 16, 2010. A Queer Eightfold Path-Right Intention. A woman with Right View. Knows that when invited to a wedding – regardless of whether she knows the bride – she will not wear an extravagant and glamorous dress that would distract everyone from the bride. Therefore, she dresses smartly, but simply. She has Right Intention; to demure in the presence of the star of the day so that all eyes are on the bride rather than her. Hmm, sounds a lot like the current state of affairs in the world. Bu...

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My Buddha is pink: Buddhist privilege

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Sunday, February 2, 2014. A bhikkhu who has left behind all action,. Shaking off the dust of former deeds. The stable one, unselfish, steady,. Has no need to address people.". I used the "find a random sutta" function at Access to Insight, and this is where I landed. It's ironic because for a while I have been frustrated with self-professed Buddhists who far too frequently share what I view to be a rather elitist attitude. I believe feeds this notion of indifference. Are you saying the Buddha was wrong?

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My Buddha is pink: Observing the past, then walking away

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Sunday, September 25, 2011. Observing the past, then walking away. Saturday I returned from a week in Arizona where I visited places I hadn’t seen in 30 years. Yes, things change, but how things change can be interesting. While the Bhaddekarrata suttas (MN 131. Wisely instruct us to avoid living in the past, such guidance does not equate to ignoring the past nor refusing to peruse it to discern any secrets it might reveal. The former photo was taken with a Konica TC Autoreflex (which I still have) using ...

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My Buddha is pink: The Third Precept

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009. There were many things that attracted me to Buddhism, but perhaps none was more persuasive than the Third Precept. The Third Precept states:. Kamesu micchacara veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami. In Pali) “I undertake the course of training in refraining from wrong-doing in respect of sensuality.”. Writes in his blog for The Huffington Post:. Does that mean only good sex is OK, and bad sex is not? For example, in the. Sammaditthi Sutta: The Discourse on Right View. 8220;He does not g...

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My Buddha is pink: Coming out and Buddhism

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Saturday, July 25, 2009. Coming out and Buddhism. We gays are a perfect match with Buddhism at the time we come out: however, many of us do not follow through on what drove us to come out to find spiritual bliss in something like Buddhism, and instead, we end up becoming again part of something we were desperate to leave behind. A true individual is committed to developing self-awareness. Usually we are not very self-aware. We may think that we are individuals, that we think and feel for ourselve...The g...

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My Buddha is pink: Is it just a job or Right Livelihood?

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Sunday, June 5, 2011. Is it just a job or Right Livelihood? So maybe you’re in a gay club admiring the twinky go-go boy gyrating on the bar and you’re just about to stuff a fiver into the guy’s aussieBums when suddenly your mind is penetrated with a keen thought: Is this Right Livelihood? But what is Right Livelihood? Just some more oppressive rules to restrict us homos into a box of moralistic confinement? I mean sheesh, look what a lot of them try to do to us with the Third Precept! 8220;OK, whoa dude!

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My Buddha is pink: A Queer Eightfold Path-Right View

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Sunday, May 9, 2010. A Queer Eightfold Path-Right View. Let’s say I’m shopping – it doesn’t matter where, it could be Armani Exchange (though I seldom find anything suitable for me that fits, but I love the ambience! All those Asian hotties that shop there! But what to wear with a pink polo? It may help to think of Right View also as Skillful View, as it becomes your moral compass to help you negotiate your way along both the path, as well as through the distractions of the world. Consider the words ...