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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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Uposatha Day 12/12/2012
Travels with Bhante I flew to California on the first of the month to spend about ten days with my father on the Point Reyes…
Uposatha Day 12/7/2012
A new essay: What Did the Buddha Think of Women? Buddhism is widely know throughout the world as a religion of peace and kindness. Unfortunately it…
Uposatha Day 11/28/2012
Our Amazing Sangha The Buddhist monastic order is plausibly the world’s oldest human organization in continual existence, still recognizable in terms of attire, life-style, practice…
Uposatha Day 11/21/2012 (a little late)
Shining Through I have been reading a lot of “Gombrich” lately. Richard Gombrich is a very respected British scholar of Buddhism. Scholars of Buddhism generally…
Uposatha Day 11/13/12
I have been considering how best to proceed with my writing (you might have gotten a sense of that if you noticed that I sent…
Robes of the Bhikkhu
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, October 30, 2012 From a forthcoming chapter of my bio, much of it originally written in Burma in 2009, appropriate now…
Burmese Alms Rounds
Uposatha Day, First Quarter Moon, October 23, 2012 Another excerpt from my bio narrative: When the Buddha returned to visit his princely home after his…
Alms in Minnesota
New Moon Uposatha Day, October 15, 2o12 I have three chapters left in “Through the Looking Glass” to finish (first draft): Tales of Burma The…
The Case of the Missing Hour
Last Quarter Moon Uposatha Day, October 8, 2012 I am hoping that there is a prospective sleuth or a professional gumshoe among my readership who…
Latest Chapter
Uposatha Day, Full Moon, September 30, 2012 This week we have had three visitors on private retreat and we have been meditating together in the…
Giving and Receiving the Dhamma
Uposatha First Quarter Moon, September 23, 2012 How far must the teacher and the student each reach? At what place do they meet? Reverse Proselytizing.…
Death in the Family
Uposatha Day, New Moon, September 15 One by one we lose everybody and everything that is dear to us. Until at some point anyone who…
Books on Rebirth
Uposatha Day, First Quarter Moon, Sept. 9, 2012 What do we do with this “Rebirth Thing”? Commonly, perhaps typically, Western Buddhists have trouble with the…
Dharma Talk in Austin
For those readers in Austin, TX: This Thursday I will give a talk for the Mariposa Sangha in Austin. All are invited to attend. Karma…
Buddhism in Myanmar
Here is a glimpse of monastic life in Burma. The middle part of this, from about 10 minutes, was shot in Sagaing Hills in central…