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		<title>Boycotting Buddhists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Buddhist boycotts have been bubbling up over the past few months. In August, Ethan Nichtern announced his resolution to boycott Whole Foods to protest the CEO&#8217;s stance on healthcare reform. Burmese monks announced a potential pattanikkujjana, a boycott on alms from the undeserving in the military. Thich Quang Do, leader of GHPGVNTN (Unified Buddhist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1788&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha Sighting! &#8211; The Daily Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So as I was watching a Daily Show clip my friend posted on Facebook, I realized that the next clip on the video player included Jack&#8217;s Mannequin (official website), a band I liked back in high school.  Jack&#8217;s Mannequin has recently come out with a new album called The Glass Passenger as well as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1773&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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This past Friday, I had the opportunity to watch a free screening of Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. I saw the trailer last year. I&#8217;ve read reviews and heard other people talk and blog about it. It&#8217;s one of those films that you go in watching with high expectations because of all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1769&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Attitude Toward Precepts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Bhante Sukha Sambodhi of TTVMC in Riverside, CA, found an odd quirk among many of his American born practitioners. He mentioned this to myself and two friends while we were spending a weekend meditating at his meditation center. The quirk was in the ordering of the teachings, which were reversed from the MO of Buddhist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1747&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Western Buddhism White?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arunlikhati</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Buddhist writers have an unquenchable fascination with Western Buddhism. Perhaps it’s due to a flaming sense of entitlement, zealous evangelism or cultural elitism. Regardless, I unfortunately seem to have an undying fascination with these people.
Barbara O’Brien addresses Stuff White People Like, a blog and book by Christian Lander, noting that “Lander mentions Buddhism as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1741&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Buddhas&#8217; Wager</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arunlikhati</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was introduced to Pascal’s Wager by my college statistics professor. An evangelical Christian, she placed a short version of the wager not-so-discretely on her professional website: “If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing.”
The beauty of Pascal’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1734&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something Old, Something New</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Lancaster, the brilliant and pioneering professor of Buddhist Studies, who gave a lecture at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights. The title of his talk was &#8220;How Religions Learn,&#8221; though in the same way as many of my favorite speakers he used the talk as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1723&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Tonic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful post by Karen Maezen Miller has been circulating in my ring of friends, and it still puts a huge smile on my face.
It&#8217;s the time to reach for a tonic.
For fatigue: Be tired.
For impatience: Be still
For inflammation: Chill.
For despair: Empty completely.
For fear of getting nothing done: Get nothing done.
For having no time: Take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1719&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Well-worn Words: The Brahma-viharas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found that the hardest Buddhist concepts to understand are those which  predate Buddhism in one way or another. One of these is the Buddha&#8217;s teaching on the four Brahma-viharas: metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha.
In the Pali suttas they are almost always mentioned as a set without additional descriptions, such that it is hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1714&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sects and Sectarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with free eBooks is that, for all the gains in access they offer by removing the constraints of traditional distribution they remove some of the methods of traditional promotion. For Buddhist monastic authors this is usually not a problem since  free access is greatly prefered to fame and fortune, but this means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dharmafolk.wordpress.com&blog=3465074&post=1707&subd=dharmafolk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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