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Dusty art, or Dharma is everywhere we look.

Posted in Dharma on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Western Buddhist Feminist Oppressors

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Community, Sangha, tagged , , , , , , , on November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This post contains an article sent to me by a friend, Rethinking Western Feminist Critiques on Buddhism (original link), by Cheng Wei-yi (鄭維儀). It’s sort of timely since I’ve been ranting about cultural issues in the Buddhist community since… well, since I’ve started blogging here. I enjoyed this article and felt it deeply resonated with my [...]

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Relax, Release

Posted in Meditation, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Ven. Thích Thiện Sơn at Chùa Phật Huệ in Frankfurt AM
Several years ago, we had the tremendous honor of hosting Venerable Thích Thiện Sơn at UCLA. Ven Thiện Sơn is the abbot of Chùa Phật Huệ, the major Vietnamese temple in Frankfurt AM. He is an accomplished meditation master, also fluent in German, Mandarin Chinese [...]

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Our own company

Posted in Meditation on November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Aloneness in meditation was something I immediately encountered in the beginning of my practice. There was a consistent habit of moving away from the breath and trying to visualize the fellow meditators around me. However, it was never successful.

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Conquering Devils on a Daily Basis

Posted in Meditation, tagged , , , , , on November 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

For the past few weeks, I’ve had a lot of difficulty keeping meditation at the top of my priorities. Even when I manage to sit every day, my mind has been more agitated than usual. Then the other day, I had a moment that brought me back to the stories of Lord Buddha that I [...]

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