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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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And now, all posts since 2009:
Buddhist-Rohingya Relief
I am soliticing donations on behalf of people recently displaced by violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, and particularly the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees…
Those Self-Absorbed Buddhists
A few months ago I gave a talk to some seminary students who wanted to learn about Buddhism. After the talk, after the Q&A that…
The Case of the Missing Sangha
a selective review of Stephen Batchelor’s After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age, 2017, Yale University Press. Other reviews of this work have…
Sangha
This essay is updated from the chapter “The Buddhist Community” in my book A Culture of Awakening: the life and times of the Buddha-Sasana. When…
Take Seriously but Hold Loosely: perspectives on Secular Buddhism (3/3)
Sorry for the delay; I changed my mind a couple of times in writing this. So far, in parts 1 and 2, I have argued…
Take Seriously but Hold Loosely: perspectives on Secular Buddhism (2/3)
The previous episode (1/4) demonstrated that the teachings of Buddhism provide a support for practice and have no other function, in particular, no function in…
Take Seriously but Hold Loosely: perspectives on Secular Buddhism (1/3)
Recently someone compared my writing to that of Stephen Batchelor, the most prominent and perhaps most articulate proponent of the new Secular Buddhism movement. I…
The nuns’ Sangha update
A few years ago, I wrote an essay “What Did the Buddha Think of Women,” which has turned out to have had more hits than…
Textbook: Buddhist Life/Buddhist Path
Now in Second Edition, April, 2019 Buddhism began with the Buddha, a towering figure who lived some hundred generations ago, taught for forty-five years, developed…
Sandals on the Ground in America
by Bhikkhu Cintita and Dr. Win Bo The following passages will appear in the forthcoming book, Teacher of the Moon: the Life and Times of…
Harmony (6/6)
Those eager to read to the end to see how it comes out can click here for the whole chapter as a pdf. Practicing Harmony…
Harmony (5/6)
Those eager to read to the end to see how it comes out can click here for the whole chapter as a pdf. The Ideal…
Harmony (4/6)
Those eager to read to the end to see how it comes out can click here for the whole chapter as a pdf. Social responsibilites…
Harmony (3/6)
Those eager to read to the end to see how it comes out can click here for the whole chapter as a pdf. Respect Another…