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Asian Meter

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Media, tagged , , , , on February 28, 2009 | 16 Comments »

It took me a while to get my hands on the latest issue of Tricycle because they hadn’t restocked it at the Borders across the street. I ended up grabbing a copy at Barnes & Noble downtown. I have plenty of things to say about the issue, such as the Big Sit (I have much [...]

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Noble Speech and Sarcasm

Posted in Language, tagged , , , , , , on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

On one of my posts from last week, I swung the spotlight over to another post without realizing it was written tongue-in-cheek. The author complained: “I would have thought that my ‘tongue-in-cheek’ joking was fairly clear.” And this brought me back to something that I’ve been struggling with for months now: sarcasm/verbal irony.
I’ve been trying to [...]

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More “Zen” in the News

Posted in Language, tagged , , on February 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Yesterday the New York Times Carpetbagger blog put up a post with Zen the adjective: L.A. Dispatch: A Moment of Zen. Rev. Danny Fischer has previously kvetched about the implacable writers who use the word Zen in pop-culture because it doesn’t cling to its etymological roots. As I mentioned before, this pop-use of Zen is a [...]

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Monk Bashes Chinese Cooking

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, tagged , , , , , on February 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I really just wanted to post an offensive title like that. Over at dhamma musings, Ven. Shravasti Dhammika, author of the well-known Good Questions, Good Answers has slipped on the food critic hat for a post. The monk does not like Chinese vegetarian fare, and he does not mince words. I’m vegetarian and sometimes cook [...]

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Asian Watch

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Media, tagged , , , , , on February 12, 2009 | 10 Comments »

One of the perks of my new place is that I live across the street from Border’s. My cold still has not gone away, so after zipping through Trader Joe’s (also across the street), I made a quick swing by Borders, where I noticed that the new issue of Shambhala Sun is out. The Tenth Annual [...]

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Last Chance to Save the Temple!

Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Community, tagged , , on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The day approaches. If you haven’t heard about the threat to Wat Mongkolratanaram, go read my earlier post and visit savethethaitemple.com! There’s still time to go ahead and make your calls to the Berkeley city government! The Berkeley ZAB hearing is this Thursday, February 12, 2009. If you can make the ZAB hearing, please do! Represent!

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Mind Reading

Posted in Sangha, tagged , , , on February 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »

On one trip to a certain monastery, my friends and I were about to leave when one of my friends asked me if it were possible to get one of the abbot’s books on Buddhist meditation. She was interested in a specific book that he’d talked about the day before. I asked a member of [...]

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Interfaith Interactions

Posted in Community, tagged , , on February 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I recently attended an inter-religious event focusing on introducing the different houses and practices of worship for each religion. The event featured speakers from nine different faiths: Catholicism, Hinduism, Sufism, Lutheranism, Judaism, Episcopal Church, Methodism, Presbyterianism, and Buddhism. The Buddhist speaker presented some of the daily practices performed by monastics in the Mahayana tradition, such [...]

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