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Saturday, May 09, 2015

Reincarnation and karma: Buddhism, Christianity, and Science..

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Here's my response to an interesting blog over at Pathos by the Christian blogger Christian Piatt titled " Do Buddhism and Quantum ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Buddha Dharma Comes to the West

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Thinking about Buddha Dharma coming to the West. The Buddhism of the West, that eventually becomes identifiable as such, will be as dif...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Heart Sutra without the shortcuts.

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The Great Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra is the classic short sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. It is concise and condensed to minimalist perfection...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Dead Differences and Living Distinctions

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~ From, Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans by Barry Magid: Difference and boundary are not words that we normally value in ...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Let the Student Beware: There Are Different Degrees of Awakening.

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Often Zen students, and even some Zen teachers, are confused about the Japanese terms kensho , "to see the nature" (Japanese けんし...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

The Intimate Idea of the One Vehicle

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. In the transplantation of Buddhism to the West, the One Vehicle of the Buddha Dharma is often misunderstood.   The terms “the West” and...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

It's a One Vehicle Day

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~ I have finished the first draft of my English translation of Guṇabhadra's Chinese translation of THE SUTRA OF QUEEN ŚRĪMĀLĀ’S...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

To see in black and white is to be colorblind

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In an important essay on our Summer of White Supremacy , author Bridgett Davis  surveys the United States of Fear that many of our citize...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

They should be called "Islamic Dynasty" or DIIS not "Islamic State" or ISIS or ISIL

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They should be called "Islamic Dynasty" not "Islamic State," but what's in a name?  You might be confused, as many p...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Israel is a Serial Killer That Must Be Stopped

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  We have to stop lying to ourselves.   The whole notion of Peace Talks to solve the Israel and Palestine question is a complete an...