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Transcultural Buddhism: Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Monday, 30 December 2013. Purifying the Past with Vajrasattva, the New Year Buddha. That's what many of us say on the first of January - and it isn't just about the after effects of New Year's Eve. Never, ever, again! New Year is the traditional time for kicking old harmful habits, and resolving to stop causing further hurt to ourselves and others. Gives us a fresh. Harmful, negative tendencies. And states of mind. We think o...
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Meditation and Buddhism: Seven reasons to Meditate Now
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News updates for Buddhism, and meditation techniques and benefits. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Seven reasons to Meditate Now. The word ‘meditation’ is being thrown around a lot at the moment. Everyone’s emphasising the importance of being ‘mindful’ and conscious of our body’s actions – including us! But why are we suddenly reiterating spiritual practices that have existed for thousands of years? Relieves Aches And Pains. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Body image: a Buddhist perspective. Experts Recommend...
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Transcultural Buddhism: Collateral damage
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Musings on Buddhism and modern global culture, plus a few miscellaneous topics. Saturday, 9 January 2010. Xenophobia or militant secularism? In earlier posts I blogged about the danger of the rising European backlash against Islam. Producing collateral damage to harmless 'foreign' faiths such as Buddhism, due to guilt by association and cultural xenophobia ( here. Aren ’t no Ten Commandments and a man can raise a thirst.". A plague on both your houses. A large proportion of the country believes that the ...
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Meditation and Buddhism: Fake atrocity stories and pictures of 'Buddhist attacks' on Muslims in Burma (Myanmar)
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News updates for Buddhism, and meditation techniques and benefits. Friday, 12 June 2015. Fake atrocity stories and pictures of 'Buddhist attacks' on Muslims in Burma (Myanmar). Anywhere Muslims immigrate, conflict follows. And so it goes in Burma. To shore up their false narrative, Muslims are circulating fake pictures. They’ve learned well from the “Palestinians.”. 8220;The fake pictures of the Rohingya crisis,” BBC, June 6, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):. Many of these images are graphic and d...
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Meditation and Buddhism: Dealing with baggage from the past
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News updates for Buddhism, and meditation techniques and benefits. Tuesday, 2 June 2015. Dealing with baggage from the past. From The Huffington Post. In the practice of mindfulness, we take a different approach to finding happiness. Instead of trying to please our senses, we seek to eliminate the sources of our unhappiness. These sources are generally unresolved issues from our past, and difficulty dealing with the present. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Body image: a Buddhist perspective.
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Tantric Playfulness – part 2 | Real Kadampa
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Just an ordinary blogsite. CLICK HERE to be made of light. Tantric Playfulness – part 2. September 26, 2012. Creating distance between ones real self and delusion is what the practice of humor and lightness is all about. At present their is a war going on in my mind between my ordinary contaminated self, wracked with delusion, and my purest self full of virtuous qualities. Distance should be set between myself as pure and myself as contaminated. One must rule. For most human beings, when we focus on othe...
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Communicating with your purest self | Real Kadampa
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Just an ordinary blogsite. CLICK HERE to be made of light. Communicating with your purest self. July 11, 2012. Within each being is their purest self, their Buddha Nature, their Inner Spiritual guide, the infinite source. When we talk to that self, make requests to it, make offerings to it, ask it for guidance, how can we be sure that we have received a response and are not just making it up? We should invite all Buddhas to listen and speak through our real self, on response:. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Kusali & Tantric playfulness – Part 1 | Real Kadampa
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Just an ordinary blogsite. CLICK HERE to be made of light. Kusali and Tantric playfulness – Part 1. September 19, 2012. In 41 The 11 Yogas. Tantra in Buddhism is seen as a dance, like a dance of energies. Vajrayogini is often described as ‘dancing like lightning within one’s central channel’ a phrase taken from Gen-la Dekyong. I love this! Someone whom I know is such a being and has been teaching me a very special way of purifying my mind which I would like to share but first would like to speak about pu...
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Mental attitudes and arrogance | Real Kadampa
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Just an ordinary blogsite. CLICK HERE to be made of light. Mental attitudes and arrogance. September 19, 2012. In 3 Daily Practice. 6 How to think. There are many different types of attitude that people develop. Some are more dominant in an individual dependent on their karma. A few other interesting types of attitude or filters for perceiving a world:. Always wanting to be seen as clever. Being right all the time (self-righteousness). Bullying/domineering controlling and manipulative. In my next post I ...
