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He who, having traversed this miry, perilous,
and delusive round of existence,
who has crossed over, and reached the other shore,
who is meditative, calm, free from doubt,
and, clinging to nothing, has attained to nibbāna:
him do I call a holy one. (Dpd 414)
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Authenticity
Uposatha Day, First Quarter Moon, March 19, 2013 I still owe one more chapter of Buddhist Religiosity. Meanwhile, I have been reworking the drafts of…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Negotiating the Dharma
Uposatha Day, New Moon, March 11, 2012 Chapter 8. Negotiating the Dharma Buddhism is radical in any culture. It goes “against the stream.” The Noble…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Folk Buddhism
Uposatha Day, March 5, 2013 Index to Series Chapter 7. Folk Buddhism Each weekend many people set out to conquer the mountain in the middle…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Retooling
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, Feburary 25, 2013 Index to Series Chapter 6. Retooling Buddhism Let’s get historical. The Buddha gave us a Buddhism that would…
Support our sisters
Friends in the Dhamma, This is an opportunity to support a community of Western Theravada nuns in California. I know most of them personally, and…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Transcendence
Uposatha Day, February 18, 2013 Index to this series Chapter 4. Transcendence “I’m Saved!” Buddhism is about salvation, it’s even about, uh, being born again.…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Community
Uposatha Day, New Moon, February 10, 2013 Index to this series This is the next chapter of my eBook on Buddhist Religiosity. I am doing…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Refuge
Uposatha Day, February 3, 2012 Index to this series Chapter 3. Refuge. In summary of the last chapter, reverential trust (or faith) in the Triple…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Core Buddhism
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, January 26, 2013 Index to this series Chapter 2. Core Buddhism There is a Buddhism that shines through constantly through the…
Fundamentals of Buddhist Religiosity: Introduction
Uposatha Day, First Quarter Moon, January 19, 2013 Index to this series I have been reworking some of my previous writings into an eBook of…
The Calgary Talk on Dana
Uposatha Day 1/11/2013 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPPFKkcdUDs] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzCSmIRDvU] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5sKHsbzxCE] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFrZlqR0AQ]
Uposatha Day Post 1/5/2013
Buddhist Rules and Culture The Vinaya, the First Basket of early Buddhist teachings is the Code for Monks and Nuns, the rules, regulations, policies…
Uposatha Day 12/28/2012
Ch. 12. Requisites of the Bhikkhu A monk is like a house pet: helpless on his own, absolutely and vulnerably dependent on the kind hand…
Greetings from Canada
Banf, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, December 20, 2012.
Uposatha Day 12/21/2012 (and Mayan End-of-the-World Day)
Tales of Burma This is the eleventh and latest chapter of my autobiographical narrative Through the Looking Glass to attain draft completion. This will leave…