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  C2 started this discussion 7 months ago. ( reply )

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  leegee 

  http://www.shelfari.com/books/55046/Destructive-Emotions-How-Can-We-Overcome-Them-A-Scientific-Dialo

  Well, "listening" to, and for the third or foruth time, but what a fascinating book. It is an account of a Mind/Life Institute conference, of which the actual recordings are freely available.

  The conference was comprised of the reports of members professional practice, including the effects of "Buddhist" practice in education, scientific study of meditators.

  More books like this would be much appreciated - more freely available copies of the Mind Life Institute's publications would, too. I think I am capable of research alongside these people, but I frankly can't afford to buy all their papers to find out! Still, the conference's occasional but repeated focus on non-religious Buddhism is very interesting indeed, all the more so for the prescence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I'm not a Tibetan or of any formal order, but HHDL certainly is a fascinating figure.

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    C2 

    Leegee: Thanks for the interesting post. "I read instead of thinking, 'I feel depressed,' think...
    'I feel deep rest.'" --A response from a friend when asked what she was reading!
    Read and audio plans from HHDL: "The Universe in a Single Atom;" unabridged CD album of
    "Becoming Enlightened," read by co-author Jeffrey Hopkins, phd

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  C2 

  6/7/09: "Path W/O Destination," by Satish Kumar

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  SimonaP 

  Nagarjuna and Obama

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    C2 

    "Emptiness wrongly seen destroys the weak-minded, like a mishandled snake or a misperformed
    spell." -Nagarjuna

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    leegee 

    "Yes we can!"
    Bob The Builder, circa 1996 (British childrens' TV star)

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  ChowJo 

  Gods drink whiskey: stumbling toward enlightenment in the land of the tattered buddha by stephen asma

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    C2 

    Happy Bacchuddha! <LOL>

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  Cass M 

  I just finished the book, The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. When I was visiting my Buddhist teacher in May, he had it on his table. He told me that he liked the book. Coming from my teacher, it was a valuable recommendation. I felt that there was wisdom in this book as well as a great connection between Buddhism and quantum physics.

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    leegee 

    Quantum physics. - that sounds interesting. Could you please give us an idea of the kind of detail?
    tia
    lee

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    C2 

    leegee:

    http://mingyur.org/book/joy-of-living.html

    Also: e-book available; YouTube-Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

    Also: googled The Joy of Living Mingyur and clicked Google books (Sample the book--contents &
    pages)

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    leegee 

    Very kind, thank you.

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    C2 

    Anytime, Sensei!...You scratch the back of my mouse; I scratch yours--Ha! Ha! Ha!

    FYI: Visited Port Townsend, WA, USA where 'Red Pine' is said to reside on 7/5/09. Very quaint, Victorian harbor town with little shops and good restaurants. Driving to it, there are very, very tall pine trees along side the road with ferns and wildflowers...but no Buddha and no Red Pine to my awareness--SHUCKS! :-(

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    leegee 

    Sounds like an idyllic place, though I'd settle for a reasonable café over a good restraunt, philestein that I am. It *would* be interesting to meet Red Pine, to learn how to get stared reading those strange characters, as he does.
    You weren't looking for a Buddha really, were you..? Humour sometimes lost in text and over the Atlantic!
    -- Lee, London, UK

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    C2 

    Yes, it was idyllic--large health-food co-op...ate (near the water) at a place called the Hudson Cafe--
    urban philistinites can't tell the difference between cafes and restaurants except for the number of
    forks and spoons one must ponder over--okay, THIS must be a restaurant, then. In the future, there may only be cafaurants.
    Re: Red Pine and "strange characters," I'm assuming you mean "interesting people" and not the
    written Chinese *hanzi.* I enjoyed reading his book, "Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese
    Hermits." I hear his new book, "The Platform Sutra," is good, too.
    And, Ha! Ha! Ha!...I'm always keeping my eye out for the Buddha, but I'm soooo confused, because
    I find parts of him in everyone--including YOU!

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    leegee 

    Looking forward to cafaurants, and their implied promise of social egalitarianism, where good food will be served without a nose in the air. Tell me - do they need great web-developers in little coatal country towns in the US?
    Red Pine: both really, but actually the *hanzi* was foremost in my mind, as I had never heard of the "Road to Heaven," which is now winging its way to me from the bookshop (thank you). New Platform Sutra translation? Natural choice, I guess: will look forward to it. Will it be open source? Maybe I can ask him....
    Keeping eye out for Buddha -- :-) Good stuff!

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    C2 (edited)

    _/\_

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    leegee 

    Re: wanted ads -- cultural differenance, don't have them for jobs here.
    Bumper stickers - don't have those either!
    Let's never let "Buddha" be like "Christ" or we'll have to "kill the Buddha" as we have to kill the Christ (Alan Watts probably?)

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    C2 (edited)

    _/\_

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    leegee 

    <blockquote>
    Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.
    </blockquote>
    Lin-chi -- http://www.shelfari.com/books/908622/The-Zen-Teachings-of-Master-Lin-Chi

    He is also attributed with saying that "...there are certain baldheads who turn all their efforts inward, seeking in this way to find some otherworldly truth. But they are completely mistaken! Seek the Buddha and you'll lose the Buddha. Seek the Way and you'll lose the Way. Seek the patriarchs and you'll lose the patriarchs."

    Creative promotion of self on YouTube -- that's a new thought, though to be picky, it would have to be of my work rather than my self....

    "Watching Buddha in me" - is there a magnet/sticker saying "watching Christ in me"?

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    C2 (edited)

    "Here at my place we don't talk about who is a monk and who is a lay believer. When someone
    comes to me, I can tell exactly what he is like. Whatever circumstances he may have come from,
    I take all his words and utterances to be so many dreams and phantoms. But when I see a man who has learned to master the environment, I know that here is the secret meaning of the
    buddhas." --"The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi" #17

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  Sandra W (edited)

  How to see yourself as you really are. The Dalai Lama

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  Jim K 

  Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English (http://bit.ly/2HgCQL).

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  leegee 

  Zen In The Art of Writing, by (of all people) Ray Bradbury: http://www.shelfari.com/books/19772/Zen-in-the-Art-of-Writing

  I've not reached the title essay yet, but os far every piece has spoken directly from his soul to mine, as do so many of his writings,

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  mohini00 

  I have always been drawn to the life of Buddha right from early years of my reading life, and at a moment in my life when all relationships seemed to be closing in on me and I needed to go in to myself to touch a spot of stillness within me, I started to read Buddhist literature extensively... literally everything I could get, without any particular direction.... at some point, I felt that if I truly wanted to learn I must retrace Buddha's journeys, from the place of his birth to Kushinagar, where he breathed his last on earth... which I did, a few years ago.... starting with Lumbini and journeying to Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Shravasti, Rajgir, Nalanda, Vaishali and then finally to Kushinagar... a journey that took me 24 days and took me to Nepal and then across the states of UP and Bihar in India... staying at monasteries (japanese, chines$e, srilankan)

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    leegee 

    Why did you feel you "must retrace Buddha's journeys"? I don't recall his asking anyone to do so. Did you try it, did it help?

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  Helen F 

  Beyond the sky and the earth: a journey into Bhutan, by Jamie Zeppa.

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  leegee 

  "Quantum and The Lotus" by Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan. It's not impressed me yet, seems rather stayed so far, but I hope for great things in the next chapters.

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  SimonaP 

  "Ocean of Dharma" by Chögyam Trungpa ... brilliant, simple

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  Kevin H 

  The Essential Chogyam Trungpa - I found "Spiritual Materialism" to be a wonderfully valuable text.

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