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- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1245
Re: Hawai‘i’s Japanese Buddhist Temples Are Struggling to Keep Ancient Traditions Alive
In 2019 I was in Maui for work. I visited several dharma centers available there when I had time and they were open. The Kagyu center was reasonably well attended despite their head not being there, they seemed an active concern and I participated in a quite nice open service & spent time in the...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Dealing with the Blues through Practice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 818
Re: Dealing with the Blues through Practice
Serve others, ie, volunteer work, ideally, anonymously. OTOH serving along side others doing the same can be a profound lesson in various dharma principles. Social engagement in that way is strongly emphasized in the sangha I attend. Oh absolutely wonderful input. Thank you. Outside of the general ...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Dealing with the Blues through Practice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 818
Re: Dealing with the Blues through Practice
Serve others, ie, volunteer work, ideally, anonymously. OTOH serving along side others doing the same can be a profound lesson in various dharma principles. Social engagement in that way is strongly emphasized in the sangha I attend.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1663
Re: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
Best strategy is to not go at this alone- please find a teacher. Thanks you for your reply, I will move near a Buddhist monastery one day But isn't getting help in a buddhist forum from other buddhists in itself a way to not be alone? Its certainly a good start :twothumbsup: A monastery is not esse...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1663
Re: Fear of no/not self, what is the way out to this?
Best strategy is to not go at this alone- please find a teacher.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2024
Re: Please tell me how a meditator is supposed to sleep
Speaking as moderator here; dharmawheel cannot offer medical/mental health advise. I suggest you would likely be well served by consulting with a doctor with respect to sleep and a teacher with respect to meditation. Personally I have found that isolated do-it-yourself efforts are not productive in...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:16 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: what is the meaning of dreaming a Stupa
- Replies: 11
- Views: 759
Re: what is the meaning of dreaming a Stupa
I've dreamed of demons and roshis's, ruins and palaces. Not sure that it matters much, the point seems to be practice- choose one that suits and get after it.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:11 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Who are you calling stupa?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 400
Re: Who are you calling stupa?
Well perhaps if one accepts that you might have to wait for eternity for wisdom, it is certainly the case that you will be waiting for eternity to get your luggage in the baggage claim at BWI.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:56 am
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: The Physicalist
- Replies: 3
- Views: 487
Re: The Physicalist
Please keep the discussion focused on the topic proposed.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:28 pm
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: Fingers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2519
Re: Fingers
Chapter 6 -------------------------------------- A long time on the road changes one's view- once I got tired enough and hungry enough it was time to consider options. I did some detective work first, getting to the world among the crowds of tourists and refugees; circulating, listening, pushed arou...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:58 pm
- Forum: Shingon
- Topic: Temples in the Tri-state area
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1522
Re: Temples in the Tri-state area
There is Great River Tendai in Alexandria VA - visited there briefly when passing through and attended for a day, great folks there and abundant evidence of strong regular practice. But not convenient from New Jersey.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 8:25 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: what sustains a bodhisattva?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2879
Re: what sustains a bodhisattva?
same. yes indeed.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:50 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: what sustains a bodhisattva?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2879
Re: what sustains a bodhisattva?
Me either. Sometimes faith that things will eventually change is the only thing to keep one going. General Stone Tiger gets all the glory
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: “My mind isn’t like that”
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1724
Re: “My mind isn’t like that”
Yeah my mind is calm and I can control thoughts when things are going well, getting what I want, nobody cutting me off in traffic, not getting obnoxious emails from the IT department, not being under pressure and stress for months/years at a time and so on. The tricky bit is to be calm with a contro...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 4:52 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: what sustains a bodhisattva?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 2879
Re: what sustains a bodhisattva?
When I was young, I was told a story about a hunter who saw a tiger and shot it with an arrow. When he went to inspect his kill, he saw it was just a rock, but somehow the arrow had penetrated the rock to the feathers. He tried to duplicate the feat but could not. The moral there is, he was able to...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:02 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Shane MacGowan... There's nothin left to say
- Replies: 3
- Views: 530
Re: Shane MacGowan... There's nothin left to say
They sang with The Dubliners a few times too
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Dealing with a world of self-centeredness and malice
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1341
Re: Dealing with a world of self-centeredness and malice
I find it interesting how often what I notice about others is more about my own projections that it is my perception.
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Soka Gakkai/SGI
- Topic: Daisaku Ikeda passes away at age 95
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1604
Re: Daisaku Ikeda passes away at age 95
Indeed he has. The ending of an age and the dawn of a new one for sure. How SGI organization moves past it will surely tell a lot about its health. We'll certainly be talking about it in our year end meeting tomorrow.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:29 am
- Forum: Creative Writing
- Topic: Fingers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2519
Re: Fingers
Chapter 5 =============================== Tom did show up every day, bringing burritos then tacos then other savories. Today was tacos again- “This town is pretty empty, so I go to the meetings over in the hispanic neighborhoods- ” he said, “they have some solid recovery going over there. “ Seeing m...
Re: Dilemma
Go to a thrift store and buy something used?