Posted in Sangha, tagged conservation, Dhammayutt, forest monastery, tiger, Tricycle Blog on December 18, 2008| 2 Comments »
Late last night I read about tigers and monks over on the Worst Horse, but it wasn’t till this morning when I read the UBA blog that I noticed that this temple is a Dhammayutt temple! What a timely coincidence. This story has been getting a lot of press, and fortunately it looks like Phil Ryan is kindly keeping track of it over at Tricycle Blog, thus saving me plenty of time chasing “tiger and monk” stories over the Buddhist blogosphere.
Posted in Community, Media, Sutra, tagged divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter, Politics, race, Right Speech, Tricycle Blog on August 25, 2008| 5 Comments »
Up late due to a car alarm that won’t go off in the neighborhood (and practicing loving kindness with every ounce of my sleep deprived consciousness).
I’m going to try to avoid just ranting about the Buddhist community for once. Last weekend I noticed a lot of talk about Right Speech at the full-moon uposatha. Those teachings plus all this ranting have got me thinking about where the act of complaining fits into the practice of Right Speech. So here’s some rambling about Right Speech…
Posted in Angry Asian Buddhist, Media, tagged Buddhism, China, Georgia, Kalmykia, Oriental exoticism, Ossetia, Politics, Russia, Tricycle Blog on August 18, 2008| 15 Comments »
It’s been 11 days since the South Ossetia war began between Georgia and Russia, and the only thing that Tricycle Blog has to say about this conflict is a snide comment that implies McCain might not know the difference between “Georgia with Tblisi, not Atlanta.” Otherwise, not one word. Indeed, there’s been ethnic cleansing. We have a powerful oppressor weighing down on a small nascent democracy. There are even Buddhists nearby. So what’s stopping the ink?
Oh yes, if only they were Buddhists.
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